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The research suggests that praise may have [a negative, unintended] effect, directing attention away from the task [at hand] and toward your reaction.
— Alfie Kohn
All history is the history of unintended consequences.
— T. J. Jackson Lears
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
— Linus Torvalds
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.
— James Nicoll
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
— Stone Gossard
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
— C. Wright Mills
You're human. It's one of the things humans do. Lies just spring out, even unbidden and unintended.
— C.J. Brightley
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
— Louise Slaughter
There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.
— Victoria Malin Gregory
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.
— Richard Grasso
Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably.
He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up
and took over. — Jeanne DuPrau
He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up
and took over. — Jeanne DuPrau
Any resemblance to the names and characters of actual persons is entirely coincidental and unintended, unless you think otherwise.
— K. Ceakou
Unintended jealousy is merciless.
— Doctor Kesi
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
— Dan Webster
Success cannot be pursued; success ensues. It flows as the unintended byproduct of efforts concentrated in the direction of a worthy cause.
— Robin S. Sharma
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions ...
— Ludwig Von Mises
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
— Leon Kass
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws.
— Mary Katharine Ham
At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.
— Margaret Stohl
I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.
— Georgette Heyer
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.
— Barack Obama
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
— Henry Petroski
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
— Richard Schickel
In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.
— Eric Weiner
Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!
— Andrew Levkoff
Word Powers:
A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill. — T.F. Hodge
A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill. — T.F. Hodge
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
— Gary Johnson
Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
— Steve Allen
We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of science.
— Eric Schlosser
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
— John B. Larson
Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.
— Stacy Schiff
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.
— Donald Rumsfeld