Making Mistakes Quotes - Page 23

• There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do?

  Chris Christie

  Mistake, Lying, People

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 154), 1986.

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• We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

  Murray Walker

  Mistake, Filters, Made

  "The Final Pit Stop" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2000.

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• When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.

  Erik Naggum

  Mistake, Insane, Doe

  "Lisp's future". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 31, 2004.

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• It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

  Liu Dan

  Mistake, Tests, Ability

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• When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.

  Peter Schiff

  Running, Mistake, Government

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"Peter Schiff: 'Crash Proof'", www.youtube.com. May 06, 2009.

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• It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.

  Dido Armstrong

  Mistake, Hiding Something, Hiding

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• You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

  Claudio Ranieri

  Mistake, Champions League, League

  "Chelsea are banking on Italian job". cnn.com. October 21, 2003.

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• Inherent in being proactive and trying things and not waiting to be told what to do is the fact that you're going to fail, you're going to make mistakes, and you're probably going to piss people off. And if you're not pissing people off, if you don't have haters, if you're not putting yourself in a situation that has some risks associated with it, you're probably not going to realize your full potential.

  Gina Bianchini

  Mistake, People, Waiting

  "INSTANT MBA: If You Don't Have Haters, You Won't Realize Your Full Potential" by Melissa Stanger, www.businessinsider.com. November 13, 2012.

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• You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

  Trip Hawkins

  Mistake, Entrepreneur, Territory

  "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.

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• The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.

  David Plotz

  Christian, Jesus, Mistake

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

  Scott Stapp

  Faith, Mistake, Long

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• Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK.

  Josh Linkner

  Mistake, Creativity, Leader

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• The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Failure

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• Making mistakes is natural. Making mistakes is how we learn.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, Natural

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• The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Mistake, Opponents, Jiu Jitsu

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• Be daring enough to be different,
  humble enough to make mistakes,
  wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love,
  real enough to make others see how phony you are.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Mistake, Humble

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.110, Multnomah

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• I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Mistake, Perfect, Needs

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• You make mistakes and you learn from them.

  Moby

  Mistake

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• Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

  Biz Stone

  Mistake

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• We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Father, Mistake, Heart

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• Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mistake, Stuff

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• You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God’s faithfulness, not yours.

  Jeff Iorg

  Mistake, Consistency, Despair

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• Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Strong, War

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Mistake, Thinking, Giving

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