Handicapping Quotes

#1. Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

James Surowiecki

#2. If they're forced into a challenge they don't feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call "self-handicapping": deliberately doing things that will hamper their performance in order to give themselves an excuse for not doing well.

Megan McArdle

#3. Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.

Michael Greger

#4. You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

Gwynne Shotwell

#5. I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

Paula Poundstone

#6. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#7. We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!

Domhnall Gleeson

#9. It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

John Green

#10. Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn't know how to handle themselves in battle.

Orson Scott Card

#11. That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Mick Fleetwood

#12. If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.

Bernie Sanders

#13. When women criticized men, I called it 'insight' ... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Warren Farrell

#14. I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.

Henry Rollins