Simon Sinek

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

English Author

Cory Barlog

But that's a part of life; you're going through and nothing ever works out how you wanted. Nothing ever completed cleanly the way that you wanted. It is sloppy and messy, and when you think it's over, 'Oh great. We have a bit more to do.' There's always another bit of road ahead, even when you think you've gotten to the end.

American Businessman

Jonathan Safran Foer

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

American Writer

Barbara Mertz

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

American Author

Jarvis Cocker

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.

English Musician

Jason Segel

I don't like when I watch a fight in a movie that's perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn't be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.

American Actor

Arthur Smith

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

English Comedian

Matt Bomer

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

American Journalist

Tatum O'Neal

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

American Actress

Suggests carelessness or lack of attention in a task or appearance.

Negligence Implied

Often used informally to criticise a person's lack of effort or precision.

Casual Tone

Can describe concepts, like work or reasoning, not only physical mess.

Not Just Visual

Refers to foods with a wet or liquid texture, often messy to eat.

Food Texture

Often associated with casual, comfort foods, not formal dishes.

Casual Dining

Indicates an overabundance of sentiment, sometimes viewed negatively.

Excessive Emotion

Can be used to describe expressions of love that lack subtlety.

Unrefined Affection

Describes objects or parts that are not securely fixed or too loose.

Imprecise Fit

Can refer to something that should be tight but is dangling or slack.

Lack of Tension

 The answer is, don't do things which are different. And then suddenly we tell them to and it doesn't work. You see, in reality, there are two ways you can fail in our new world. One, you're doing something that you should follow a procedure to, and it's a very difficult thing, you're sloppy, you get it wrong. How should you be treated? You should probably be fired. On the other hand, you're doing something new, no one's ever done before,

Eddie Obeng: Smart...

 structure definitely plays into it for me but there are plenty of poets that come to structure secondary and hit images first and it's it's way more sloppy than I think okay and I hear there's more good news and you have a book that's just oh oh yeah I have my new my first collection of poetry came

Poetic performance and...

 And bridging the gap is a very important concept for martial artists like my father. It's how you get from point A to point B. It's how you get from here to your target under the most vital of circumstances. And so it makes all the difference. Do you get there as an amateur? Are you sloppy?

What Bruce Lee can teach...

 and they see some sloppy thing, could be an E. Ordinarily you wouldn't think so, but we're expecting an E, it's good enough, and yeah, I've seen an E, and then apple says, "Yeah, I've seen an Apple." Go up another five levels, and you're now at a pretty high level of this hierarchy,

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready...

 chainsaws and everything you just stay focused concentrated and don't drink too much coffee it is quite important to cut those notches pretty precisely if it's cut too small the log won't sit down tight on the next log it's got too large it will be loose and sloppy

Measure Twice PIPE National...

 you're purely endorsing, from a state level, fast food, because it's handheld. And yes, by the way, it is fast It's sloppy Joes, it's burgers, it's wieners, it's pizzas, it's all of that stuff. Ten percent of what we spend on health care, as I said earlier,

Teach every child about...

 was regaling her with a sensational story. But what Hera didn’t know was that Echo was merely distracting her while her husband, Zeus, was frolicking about with the other nymphs. Unfortunately for Echo, Zeus got sloppy, and Hera realized what was going on.

The myth of Narcissus...

 in response to things that weren't that fun and that we don't want to do again, ever. But it's not really our fault that we're a little bit sloppy about how we use the word "fun," because even the dictionary doesn't get it quite right.

Why Having Fun Is the...

 Umpire started as numpires, too. If all of this sounds like something sloppy that we modern people would never do, then think about something you hear all the time and probably say, "A whole nother." What's nother?

Birth of a nickname -...

 and things weren't getting done on time, and he felt like things were sloppy. This also was a man who, I observed, never showed up to any meeting on time. Ever. If you're part of a leadership team,

Sloppy

Not neat, not careful or not detailed.

Often appears as...

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Relating to food or a dish that is wet or full of sauce.

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Relating to an emotional person or behavior that is excessively sentimental.

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Relating to something that is loose or not firm or secure.

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Negligence Implied

Casual Tone

Not Just Visual

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