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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. -- Thorstein Veblen
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. -- Adolf Hitler
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them. -- Jack White
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it. -- Michael Parkinson
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. -- Michael Buble
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. -- Katharine Graham
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -- Nelson Mandela
don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure! -- Terry McMillan
Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. -- Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. -- Mark Goulston
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves. -- Marianne Williamson
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. -- Epictetus
The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling. -- Tina Fey
Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster. -- Tina Fey
It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me. -- Chris Pine
There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible. -- Auberon Waugh
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way. -- Charles Eisenstein
Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He is essentially telling American Jews to get lost: 'I have no regard for the president you support and no regard for your own political needs and desires.' -- David Corn
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. -- Gay Hendricks
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. -- Steven Pressfield
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves. -- David Whyte
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. -- Naomi Wolf
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane. -- Eckhart Tolle
Sabotage is like, so satisfying. -- Trina
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything. -- David Ayer
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. -- Nelson Mandela
Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career. -- David Ayer
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves. -- John C. Maxwell
We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour. -- Glenn Danzig
It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage. -- Win Butler
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song. -- Ricky Martin
My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it. -- Carnie Wilson
Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do. -- Robin Marantz Henig
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. -- Noah Feldman
New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets. -- Debbie Ford
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary. -- Daniel Johns
I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain. -- Jean Chatzky
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage. -- Alex Pareene
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me. -- Chris Pine
It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments. -- LaToya London
The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love. -- Marianne Williamson
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm. -- Sandra Cisneros
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage. -- Steven Pressfield
The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must. -- Curious George Brigade
I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do. -- Alanis Morissette
Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together. -- Brian Tracy
You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. -- Athol Fugard
Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen. -- Alyce Cornyn-Selby
I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success". -- Jon Stewart
Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough. -- Bill Crawford
Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you. -- Armand DiMele
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want. -- Ali Vincent
No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage. -- Judith Orloff
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set. -- Steven Pressfield
Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra -- Kelley Armstrong
Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust. -- Francesca Marciano
I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have. -- Katy Perry
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement. -- Helen Zille
Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear -- Robin Sharma
I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage. -- Win Butler
Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage. -- Dan Bejar
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior. -- Steven Pressfield
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. -- George Orwell
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. -- Noah Feldman
I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage. -- Corey Stoll
Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network. -- Howard Blum
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike. -- Earl Warren
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy. -- Jim C. Hines
And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives. -- Louis MacNeice
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary. -- Daniel Johns
I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable. -- Kit Williamson
Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action. -- Stephen Levine
This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27) -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization. -- Dan B. Allender
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence. -- Andre Breton
Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to. -- Jeff Jarvis
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists. -- John le Carre

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