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Protecting underperformers always backfires. -- Jack Welch
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. -- Stephen D. Krashen
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires -- Todd Barry
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. -- Rob Zombie
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. -- Glenn Greenwald
Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you. -- Bill Cosby
Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you. -- Chad Pennington
For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on. -- Katey Sagal
I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road. -- Scott Niedermayer
When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire. -- Gary Lineker
I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are. -- Lionel Shriver
How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in. -- David Letterman
I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire. -- Ann Louise Gittleman
It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire. -- Neem Karoli Baba
You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective. -- Barbara Fredrickson
It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires. -- Ruth Ozeki
Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you. -- Deepak Chopra
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually. -- Elizabeth Kostova
The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street. -- Barack Obama
Observing and understanding the social media phenomenon is one thing-leveraging this trend for advertising purposes is quite another. While most companies recognize the value of social media advertising opportunities, not many have figured out how to execute these kinds of campaigns and the unique risks they entail because of the potential that a viral marketing effort can backfire and actually harm a brand. -- Stephen Jin-Woo Kim
I try to stay away from the more schmaltzy side of things. That can backfire quickly. -- James Wolk
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly. -- Natalya Vorobyova
I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those teeth turned out to be one of Dodd's big selling points. -- Paul Merton

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