#excuses

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time". ↗

— Bo Bennett

#bad habits #both #claiming #excuses #habits

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#fans #hands #i #leave #like

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. ↗

— Chris Lowe

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It's not the time to look for excuses. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#look #time

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#came #did #excellent #excuses #had

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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