Misdirected Quotes

Why was it expending precious resources hunting for ways that allow operators to use hazardous belt air to ventilate miners' working sections instead of protecting trapped miners? For an agency with such a clear mandate as that which Congress wrote into the Mine Act -- to protect and improve miners' health and safety, we ask you to consider how MSHA could have gotten so terribly misdirected. - Cecil Roberts

What we are seeing in New Orleans is the result of a series of misjudgments and misdirected priorities, that have all produced an increasingly tragic result. - Evan Bayh

Too often, business communication slows down business process because it is misdirected and depends on human intervention or decisions. Cisco's new unified system of voice, video, and desktop communications products and applications enables organizations to reach the right resource the first time. - Barry O'Sullivan

These sometimes are the kind of things that cost lives ... In this case, when we look at the number of abuses of the regulations, plus the fact that people were misdirected ... people just weren't in tune with proper procedures. - Loyola Hearn

There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key. - Steven Blair

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need. - Tracy Chapman

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. - Morihei Ueshiba

Neighborhoods infected then misdirected. It ain't no cure and it's hard to correct it. - Barrington Levy