The Worst Thing You Can Do Quotes

#1. The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

Sarah Dessen

#2. The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Conor Oberst

#3. The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

Ted Turner

#4. I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

Steven Holl

#5. The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

Yo-Yo Ma

#6. Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

Bruce Barton

#7. I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

Jeff Zucker

#8. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

John Gerzema

#9. The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk ... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.

Paul Haggis

#10. In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

Brian Austin Green

#12. The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He's in charge anyway. And in Him, you're in His peace.

Matt Chandler

#13. The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

Simon Gray

#15. The alligators can get you at any age, Buddy. But the worst thing you can do is freeze.

Rebecca Wells

#16. The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

Romola Garai

#17. The worst thing you can do is make money at the expense of losing your time.

J.R. Rim

#18. The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

#19. The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

John Waters

#20. The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Mark Twain

#21. The worst thing you can do with money is save it.

Jackie Gleason

#22. In my talks with Coach Fran, I did tell him, "Fran, the worst thing you can do is take the job and then leave in two years, if we go on probation." He told me I had nothing to worry about, that he would be in it for the long haul.

Mal Moore With Steve Townsend

#23. You can't isolate yourself, because that's the worst thing you can do. There's no healing if there's no movement, and isolation is the same as standing still.

Andrea Speed

#24. If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Russell Crowe

#25. There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.

Christopher Poole

#26. When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

Luke Haines

#27. That's the worst thing you can do, Unk - remembering back," said Brackman. "That's what they put you in the hospital for in the first place - on account of you remembered too much.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#28. It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

Maya Angelou

#29. The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.

Saravana Kumar Murugan

#30. Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

Bo Schembechler

#31. The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.

John Connolly

#32. The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Stephen Sondheim

#33. I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.

Lisa Mangum

#34. The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Ricky Martin

#36. I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.

Roger Ailes

#37. I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson

#38. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

Neil T. Anderson

#39. I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.

Robert Carlyle

#40. As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Carol Leifer

#41. Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

Dean Smith

#42. When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it
fight back!

Donald J. Trump

#43. The worst thing you can do to a Juggalo is not know about their weird subculture.

Anders Holm

#44. The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

Abraham Lincoln

#45. The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

Donald Rumsfeld

#46. Hanging out in coffee shops and talking about one day being a writer or an activist or an entrepreneur is just about the worst thing you can do.

Jeff Goins

#47. The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

Shawn Ryan

#48. A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

Jeff Raz

#49. When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.

Dylan Penn

#50. The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything get in your way.

Aleatha Romig

#51. Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Keith Emerson

#52. I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

Tyrese Gibson

#53. I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Ice Cube

#54. I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

Zooey Deschanel

#55. I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?

Blake Shelton

#56. Sometimes the worst thing you can do to a woman is to love her.

Gregory David Roberts

#57. The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Elton John

#58. The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life.

Dia Reeves

#59. The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#60. The worst thing you can do to yourself is underestimate your ability to do something.

Ryan Manley

#61. The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say 'No, no that's too much.' Let's not worry if that's too much, let's shoot it, and then decide if that's too much when we see it.

Todd Phillips

#62. The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Juliette Lewis

#63. The same goes for pajamas. If you are a woman, try wearing something elegant as nightwear. The worst thing you can do is to wear a sloppy sweat suit. I occasionally meet people who dress like this all the time, whether waking or sleeping.

Marie Kondo

#64. The worst thing you can do to someone, the very worst thing, is to keep them hoping.

Richard House

#65. Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

John Frusciante

#66. What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

George Orwell

#67. Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#68. The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

Jamie Johnson

#69. I didn't want someone saying it was going to be okay. See, that's the worst thing you can do to a girl. Say it's going to be okay when she knows it's not, when she's knows that the only real ending to the story is heartache.

Rachel Van Dyken

#70. This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Charles M. Schulz

#71. A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

Bill Maher

#72. The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

#73. To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

Kate Winslet

#74. Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance ... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do ... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#75. Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

John Hodgman

#76. The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)

Temple Grandin

#77. I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

Elias Koteas

#78. People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that's exactly what you should do. If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.

Jason Fried

#79. People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?

Sarah Skilton

#80. As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

Jonathan Gold

#81. The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

Yasmin Shiraz

#82. The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

Brian Greene

#83. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman

#84. The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow.

Tony Parsons

#85. The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.

David Steinberg

#86. I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay.
I can make it okay, myself.
Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.
She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.
And that would have to do.

L.J.Smith

#87. I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.

Brendan Gleeson

#88. I do understand! I understand what they do not, and that is you can only do with what you have. What God has given you. If you try to be anyone else, it is the worst thing that can happen because you cannot ever be them - and then you give up being you

Siri Mitchell

#89. The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

Joe Biden

#90. Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

Joseph Kanon

#91. The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

Rick Nielsen

#92. I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Constance Wu

#93. What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

Jandy Nelson

#94. If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

Thom Browne

#95. I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

Keke Palmer

#96. The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#97. Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

Veronica Roth

#98. Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your

Brian Tracy

#99. I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

Andy Irons

#100. The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Alan Dershowitz