Burning Bridges Quotes

• great men burn bridges before they come to them

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  e. e. cummings

  Men   Bridges   Burning Bridges  

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• Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

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  Harvey Mackay

  Bridges   Burning Bridges   Demolition  

  Harvey Mackay (2007). “Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot”, p.311, Ballantine Books

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• I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

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  Carrie Underwood

  Life Lesson   Grateful   Bridges  

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

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  Terry Gilliam

  Bridges   Hollywood   Likes  

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• Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

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  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Bridges   Rivers   Burning Bridges  

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

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  Sigourney Weaver

  Senior   Business   Bridges  

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• Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

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  Don Henley

  Inspirational   Letting Go   Life Changing  

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

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  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational   Memories   Eye  

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.61, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

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  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet   Clouds   Air  

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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• I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

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  Fridtjof Nansen

  Moving On   Letting Go   Moving Forward  

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• The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.

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  Jason Chaffetz

  Team   College   Winning  

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

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  Richard L. Evans

  Thinking   Doors   Bridges  

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