Ted Waitt Quotes

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

The measures have not yet been devised which can permanently protect men from their folly.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.

When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.