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Quotes About Sabotage

After you clean your subconscious, you can insert new beliefs into your mind otherwise your old beliefs can sabotage the new ones.
~ Stephen Richards
You can make as many NAPS as you like, but unless they have clean language in the narration then you could well be sabotaging your own dreams!
~ Stephen Richards
Sometimes we don't move forward because the people who love us the most unconsciously sabotage our efforts.
~ Chip Espinoza
Rotten apples stay spoiled, Nedwin said. Copernum and his allies will hang themselves with future crimes.
~ Brandon Mull
The most insidious enemy is one that resides in your own household. And not all such enemies have a human face. —DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES, "Counsel to Future Dukes
~ Brian Herbert
The Ixians are masters of industrial sabotage and patent appropriation. Nowadays Richesians are only good for making cheap copies without any innovations.
~ Brian Herbert
'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.
~ David Ayer
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
~ Thorstein Veblen
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
~ Katharine Graham
It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.
~ Gary Keller
I fall in that category. For years, I would say yes to things I knew I really did not want to do, or avoid difficult conversations because I could not live with the discomfort of speaking up for myself. I've known other victims of trauma who sabotage situations until someone else says no for them—meaning their relationship ends, a friendship becomes toxic, or they lose a job. This is what I hear you saying when you talk about people who poison intimacy.
~ Bruce D. Perry
It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.
~ Ian Fleming
Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
More or less," that most ambiguous of phrases, pervades many of the conversations that comprise this book, reflecting, perhaps, the ambiguity of attitude toward The Job. Something more than Orwellian acceptance, something less than Luddite sabotage. Often the two impulses are fused in the same person.
~ Studs Terkel
Very little, however, has been written about how market fundamentalism has, from the very first moments, systematically sabotaged our collective response to climate change, a threat that came knocking just as this ideology was reaching its zenith.
~ Naomi Klein
Next the ruined panty hose came off. I removed my wide gold wedding band, tied it to the leg with the big hole, and carried it back to the bedroom. I stood on the bed and looped the hose around a blade on the ceiling fan. I hoped Drew would flip on the light switch and the thing would knock him upside the head.
~ Carolyn Brown
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you. You don't need to go out of your way to sabotage yourself or get a friggin' drug habit or date a psycho.
~ burr billy
A vivid image of a man with a pencil through his left eye orbit flashed before me, complete with bloody smudges of my fingerprints on the yellow shaft of the pencil. Thank you, dear memory, for once again attempting to sabotage my conversation.
~ Ilona Andrews
Fanny zag ik niet meer. We waren overeengekomen dat ze pas bij me zou komen op de dag voor de aanslag, voor de laatste instructies, want zij moest de bommen klaarmaken en ze aan me geven. De kameraad die ik nog één keer ontmoette, gaf me het precieze tijdstip op: kwart voor twaalf 's avonds. Het was ons onmogelijk de schouwburg binnen te komen, want daar mocht je alleen in op uitnodiging; we moesten dus wachten onder de zuilengalerij.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.
~ Iris Murdoch
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
~ Thorstein Veblen
The little foxes that spoil the vines.
~ Bible
If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.
~ Jason Day
When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
~ Shannon L. Alder