Top 200 Stewart Stafford Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Criminal profiling is the writing process in reverse. Writers create characters and project their actions forwards into a timeline. Profilers are left with the aftermath of an offender’s behaviour and must extrapolate backwards to establish their characteristics.”

— Stewart Stafford

52. “Rebellion is the first step on the path to originality.”

— Stewart Stafford

53. “Life occurs somewhere between our aspirations and our just desserts.”

— Stewart Stafford

54. “Karens have a best friend – Becky. She’s the one who goes with them to talk to the manager and backs them up and remains silent when she calls the cops on black guys she sees in her area. Becky is Karen’s tag-team partner and an enabler. Don’t be a Becky.”

— Stewart Stafford

55. “The seeds of our own destruction are often sown at birth or in childhood. We are too busy acquiring knowledge and living life to notice their presence. It is for our biographers, if we are of sufficient importance to have any, to highlight them to a post-mortem audience.”

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56. “Adulthood is an attempt to become the antithesis of the wounded child within us.”

— Stewart Stafford

57. “Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.”

— Stewart Stafford

58. “Multitasking is overrated – I’d rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time.”

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59. “Niagara falls, Viagra rises.”

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60. “Loyalty comes before price or prize. If not, the ties that bind become constricting garrottes as creeping spinal flesh awaits a dagger’s thrust.”

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61. “The lady bears a crust of rage as the ground bears hardened frost in the morning. Some days, ’t melts with warm persuasion, but on others, ’t lingers, and all is hollow ere its cold fury.”

— Stewart Stafford

62. “At the darkest time of year, Lord Yule laid down his beard of snow and cloak of frost and ice to illuminate the gloom.”

— Stewart Stafford

63. “In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so will only become apparent later.”

— Stewart Stafford

64. “Institutional nepotism might be tolerated in prosperous times. Setbacks can become crises, however, when there is incompetence in key positions at crucial moments.”

— Stewart Stafford

65. “One man’s generalisation is another man’s succinct yet profound summation of a complex theory or argument.”

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66. “A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.”

— Stewart Stafford

67. “The curtain rises even on an actor’s worst day.”

— Stewart Stafford

68. “The apotheosis of the controlling mind is monstrous and terrifying.”

— Stewart Stafford

69. “From the Moon’s surface, the Earth is but a tiny, blue teardrop in the inky blackness of space.”

— Stewart Stafford

70. “Perception is nine-tenths of the natural law.”

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71. “Death is not the villain of the piece. It is the next phase of life in unfamiliar clothing.”

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72. “You need to make a decision – are you are an imitator or an innovator?”

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73. “Applying logic to potentially illogical behaviour is to construct a house on shifting foundations. The structure will inevitably collapse.”

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74. “The concept of good versus evil is a handy construct for framing a narrative. When you see someone applying that concept to real-world events, however, be aware that you’re in the presence of a peddler of fiction.”

— Stewart Stafford

75. “Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.”

— Stewart Stafford

76. “The internet is the most important tool for disseminating information we’ve had since the invention of the printing press. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the best ways of stealing or suppressing information and for putting out misinformation.”

— Stewart Stafford

77. “Weak political leadership benefits the rich as it maintains the status quo and all its inequities.”

— Stewart Stafford

78. “Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.”

— Stewart Stafford

79. “Words don’t get lost in translation, they get remixed. Just watch what happens to this quote.”

— Stewart Stafford

80. “People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.”

— Stewart Stafford

81. “The privilege of living a long life comes at a price -the increasing loss of those we know and love around us.”

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82. “Gloomy days, whether meteorological or psychological, lend themselves more to the creation of Gothic horror. On those insular days, the mind gravitates towards the unseen and the subconscious. Days of blinding sunshine banish the desire to ruminate and it is replaced with a longing to participate in the outside world.”

— Stewart Stafford

83. “The Holocaust happened because of the constructed belief in one untrue conspiracy theory, and the denial of its genocide afterward came from the creation and propagation of another.”

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84. “Thou has’t all the symptoms of hubris but, alas, remaineth unw’rthy of the condition.”

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85. “In the forbidden zone of interpretation, the tyranny of language becomes the poisoned-tip of the bureaucratic spear.”

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86. “A life well-lived is not measured by material possessions or the size of the funeral turnout. The quantity and depth of laugh lines on the face of the person lying in repose in their coffin reveals a life’s true worth.”

— Stewart Stafford

87. “Going to a country where you don’t speak the language is like wading into the sea when you can’t swim – it’s intimidating at first, not impossible, and ultimately manageable.”

— Stewart Stafford

88. “The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

— Stewart Stafford

89. “There’s only one thing worse than never having found love, and that’s finding it and having it taken away from you – then you truly know what you’ve lost.”

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90. “Spies are, by nature and necessity, pathological liars who strive to make their endgames justify their meanness.”

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91. “When the flood of truth becomes a drought, the lush throats of liars shall shrilly fill the vacuum with their false fruit. None shall taste its maggoty putrescence and devour it whole.”

— Stewart Stafford

92. “The world is glacial when it comes to recognising talent.”

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93. “You only really stop being an immigrant when you reject other immigrants and try to slam the door in their faces when they try to emulate you.”

— Stewart Stafford

94. “If you must trip, at least try to fall into good company.”

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95. “Begone, O frightful wig of deceit!”

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96. “Being a prophet in the wilderness speaking truth to power typically leads to poverty and punishment. It is far easier to follow the lucrative trade winds of popular opinion but withheld honesty results in forgotten words.”

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97. “Truth is a well we all draw from and slowly poison, as we use it in ways for which it was never intended.”

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98. “Once you understand and appreciate nature’s beauty and complexity, you can protect it and get the most from it.”

— Stewart Stafford

99. “Every setback is a pitstop en route to nirvana.”

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100. “People will always surprise you if you give them a chance.”

— Stewart Stafford