Self 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. Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

Paul Graham

#4. When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with ... the idea of bebop.

Buddy DeFranco

#5. There are worse things than pain, Miss Barrow,

Victoria Aveyard

#6. Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

Dottie Walters

#7. When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

Luke Pasqualino

#8. The best way to appreciate life is to express love wherever you can and enjoy whenever you can.

Debasish Mridha

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Paula Poundstone

#12. 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.