Quotes about Detriment
All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
- Ecclesiastes 8:9
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple
Negative statements in selling not only set up resentment in the mind of the prospective buyer, but they also infect the salesperson's own subconscious mind so that it throws off negative vibrations that are picked up by other people and acted upon to the detriment of the salesperson.
- Napoleon Hill
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
- William Temple
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple
I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.
- Peter Mullan