Misguided Effort Quotes

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

It doesn't matter whether you're riding an elephant or a donkey if you're going in the wrong direction.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!