- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad Quotes
Straight talk about the bad stretches.
These quotes cover a pitcher accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, a squad's uneasy feelings over uneven pay, and a nod to how poor choices tend to drive horror-film plots. For the flip side of tough moments, see Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
No. I didn't look at the last few scripts. I didn't want to read them because I'm a 'Breaking Bad' fan. I wanted to experience it with everyone.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: There's a lot of comics on 'Breaking Bad.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?
- Nov 07, 2020