Bill Veeck Quotes

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

God defend me from myself.

I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy and I have finally gotten back to the point of being brothers and clicked back into the place where we really enjoy feeding off each other onstage like we did when we started out.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive path when I feel pain. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible. That is an impulse, when I feel out of control.