Mistake Quotes - Page 16

• You made one mistake. You married me.

  Brendan Behan

  Cynical, Married, Made

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• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Philosopher, Flight

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.463, David Hume

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• Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Scary, Moses, Made

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• A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Motivation, Failure

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Making Mistakes, Doe, Courses

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• To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

  Josh Jenkins

  Funny, Overdoing It, Humans

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• Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

  Dean Martin

  Making Mistakes, Looks, Everybody Makes Mistakes

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• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Business, Independent, Sheep

  Across the Board The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent June 1977

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• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Bridges

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Good Friend, Evil

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• Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Good Luck, Merit, Disaster

  J. Christopher Herold (2016). “Bonaparte In Egypt [Illustrated Edition]”, p.559, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Block, Creativity, Opportunity

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• Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

  Price Pritchett

  Honesty, Cover Ups, Honest

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• I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

  Jerry Gillies

  Decision, Brain, Information

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• People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit the slightest mistake, they should quit their office on moral grounds without waiting to be proved guilty. Moral values must take centre stage in all walks of life.

  D. R. Karthikeyan

  People, Office, Waiting

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• It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

  Cassia Leo

  Character, Lessons, Shows

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• Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.

  Mark Suster

  Moving, Knowing, Entrepreneur

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• I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.

  Ryan Braun

  Action, Realizing, Accepting

  "Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun suspended for 2013 season". www.cnn.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.

  David Peoples

  Procrastination, People, Way

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• Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Change, Sex, Hate

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• God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

  Betty Eadie

  Teacher, Challenges, Growth

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• Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

  Aretha Franklin

  Leadership, Hurt, Growing Up

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• It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Easy, Ready

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• I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper makin money... ya know I was the partyin guy... I was the guy wit the girls... all the extra that came wit the game...it's up to the artist to know when to say when. You can't live that kind of lifestyle forever. ...I learn from the other people's mistake. I know when to say no. You learn to make the right decisions and pick the right choices. That's all that's really changed.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Girl, Attitude, Mean

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• The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

  Jack Welch

  Art, Simple, Reality

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