Quotes About Shooting Yourself In The Foot

#1. You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#2. When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.

Ashley Purdy

#4. The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

Don Rose

#5. From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

Doug Liman

#6. I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.

Danny DeVito

#7. There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.

Nicole Kidman

#8. A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

Kevin Bacon

#9. Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Kenneth Clark

#10. In our privatest mind," he said, "there is only chaos and blur. We invented logic to beat back our creatural selves. We assert or deny. We follow M with N.

Anonymous

#11. To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

Otto Penzler

#12. For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!

Agatha Christie

#13. Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Amartya Sen

#14. Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over.
Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group?
Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

Richard P. Feynman

#16. A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.

Jim Drain

#17. Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

Mardy Grothe

#18. I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

Wietse Venema

#19. Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.

Adriano Bulla