Made A Mistake Quotes - Page 6

• I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Past, Made

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• The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Mistake, Order

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Baby, Sorry, Mistake

  "The Nine Satanic Sins". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1987.

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• To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

  Bill Hicks

  Weed, Mistake, Marijuana

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• I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human.

  Rob Ford

  Mistake, Cracks, Too Much

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• I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

  Vitor Belfort

  Regret, Mistake, Character

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• I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Mistake, Should Have, Made

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.

  Chris Brown

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  "Chris Brown's Billboard Cover Tease: 'I Hope That I Am Not Defined By Just A Few Moments In My Life'" by Joe Lynch, www.billboard.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

  Adrienne Bailon

  Mistake, Men, Forgiving

  "Rob Kardashian hits out at ex-girlfriend Adrienne Bailon on Twitter by sharing sister Khloe's post" by Jess Wilson, www.mirror.co.uk. July 31, 2014.

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• I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

  Jerry Andrus

  Mistake, Mind, Different

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• I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

  Ben Affleck

  Mistake, Fall, Plot

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Military, Mistake, Moving

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 14, 2007.

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• When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?

  Thomas Bray

  Mistake, Government, Might

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• I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Twenties, Made

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• As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

  Robin Hobb

  Mistake, Afterlife, Dying

  Robin Hobb (2008). “Renegade’s Magic (The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

  Antonio Tarver

  Mistake, Fighter, Intimidation

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• In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Life, Success, Girl

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• Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

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• A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Buddhism, Frustrated

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• We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Mistake, Information, Structure

  "Collected Papers: Toward a general social science" (1974) by Kenneth Boulding (p. 87), as quoted in "Environment, technology, and future generations" by D. A. Bella, 1978.

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• To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Worrying Too Much

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• These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Teenager, Stupid

  Barack Obama's remarks after visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2015.

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Food, Dining

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• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
  A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
  But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
  I never made a mistake in my life;
  At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Mistake, Men

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• Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mistake, Iphone, Organization

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