Elvin Hayes Quotes
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
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I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
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The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.
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If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.
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The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
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I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
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Blame is the cowards way out.
