Top 66 Disservice Quotes

If you don’t care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to the consumer. We’re all inside the tunnel, speaking the language of business, but we need to speak the language of customers.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you’re doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that, because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I’d be lying if I said that that wasn’t true.

The word ‘operatic’ is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because ‘operatic’ to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

I think there’s this standard in our society that when we become a mother, we just become a mother, and that’s all you are. That’s an amazing thing, but I think you’re doing your child a disservice by not following your dreams either. I work really hard to make sure that I’m chasing all the things I always dreamed of.

Fighters who speak disparagingly about fighters from years gone by do us all a disservice. It is treacherous.

To take the ugly language out of ‘Ragtime’ is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don’t find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don’t think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we’re leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

We’re really doing children a disservice when we underestimate what they’re capable of.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I’d rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Don’t say I was an inspirational teacher – my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn’t do the children a disservice.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don’t have to worry about genre.

You have to be passionate about your business. If you don’t love your business, you are doing a terrible disservice to your customers and clients, your team members and business partners, your family and yourself.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I think that the women’s magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on – they’re thinking, ‘Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?’

I’ve probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I’ve made. They’ve all been completely different.

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

I don’t see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

You need to put yourself in the way of the music that stood the test of time. You’re doing yourself an incredible disservice not be interested in the width and breadth of it.

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

The idea of red-washing or blue-washing an entire county because a few more people vote one way or the other does a disservice to the people who live there.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

If I don’t explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I’m doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there’s things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.

Apple’s advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn’t excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as ‘I Have a Dream’ speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don’t believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as ‘Christian art.’ That’s why most Christian art is bad. They don’t put a premium on the ‘art.’

When we simply write a place off as, like, ‘Well, it’s just Trump country,’ for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It’s their country, too.

I don’t claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can’t all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

When it comes to your creative life and what it’s going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.

You’ve got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don’t do that, you’re doing a disservice to the audience, because you’re making something really diluted. And if you do that when you’re a guy, you’re seen as artistic – ‘difficulty’ is seen as a sign of genius. But it’s not the same for women.

If there’s a country, and it’s dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if there’s only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is ‘boots on the ground.’ We do a disservice to the sacrifice of these people, particularly if they are killed, when we say there’s no boots on the ground.

You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.

I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration… it does them a disservice.

I think I’d be a really good dad. So perhaps I’m doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of ‘Watchmen’ as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

Trump’s anti-China trade demagoguery may work in firing up his base, but it does a disservice to the truth.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I love a web series. But to me, it does the girl in Detroit a disservice who just watches television. It does a disservice to the girl on the south side of Chicago who doesn’t go online.

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.