Biggest Mistake Quotes - Page 5

• The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.238, Triumph Books

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• The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Children, Mistake, Believe

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• When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

  John Novak

  Mistake, Culture, Improvement

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• The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mistake, Successful, Creating

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• Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

  Ben Affleck

  Mistake, Directors, Actors

  "Oscar Watch: Why Affleck's 'Argo' Hits the Zeitgeist, Early Reviews" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Mistake, Reality, Would Be

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• The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mistake

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• The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

  Luanne Rice

  Mistake, Love Is, Thinking

  Luanne Rice (2009). “Follow the Stars Home”, p.278, Bantam

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• With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just because they're pretty." Donia laughed, coldly, sounding every bit Beira's creature in that moment. "Where were you when I needed that advice? I've already gone out with the biggest mistake a girl can make.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Mistake, Guy

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• The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

  Howard Gardner

  Inspirational, Education, Mistake

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• The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

  Dorian Yates

  Strength, Mistake, Motivational Workout

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• The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Mistake, Thinking, Marketing

  Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein (2011). “The Twitter Book”, p.189, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Real, Mistake

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• I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

  Steve Ballmer

  Love, Jobs, Mistake

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