Mistake Quotes - Page 17

• He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Progress

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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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• The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

  Tom Peters

  Issues, Design, Understanding

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• It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

  Paula Scher

  Technology, Order, Design

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• My life is like a song and I think I know the words,
  And as I start to sing along the whole verse becomes a blur.
  So I freestyle improv, make mistakes and evolve,
  The obstacles repeat, cause naturally it revolves.

  MURS

  Song, Rap, Thinking

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• Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes.
  My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

  Slim the Mobster

  Strong, Rap, Taken

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• Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them,
  Others try to block the memories and just delete them.
  But I keep 'em as a reminder they're not killing me,
  And I thank God for teaching me humility.
  Son, remember when you fight to be free
  To see things how they are and not how you like em to be.
  Cause even when the world is falling on top of me,
  Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy.
  Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you right,
  And it's another when you suffer to apply it in life.
  But I'm no rookie...
  And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, pussy.

  Immortal Technique

  Memories, Block, Philosophy

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• I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

  Marc Singer

  Retirement, Believe, Cat

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• I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Advice, Bats, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.352, Diversion Books

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• Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Eight, Chinese

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• Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

  Ellen Goodman

  Sometimes, Made, Crucial

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• It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Paper

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• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Iraq, Historical

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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• I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Yield

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

  Charlie Munger

  Errors, Trying, Cognition

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Humorous, Errors, Gambling

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• That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humorous, Ideas

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Hero, Prudent, Conquer

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• Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.

  Edgar Cayce

  Sorry, Turns, Feels

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• The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Doctors, Air

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.

  Gerry Schwartz

  Hurt, Dust, Making Mistakes

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• If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

  Howard Hughes

  Design, Pay, Made

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• The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.

  Lillian Vernon

  Jobs, Should Have, People

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• Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

  Terry Matthews

  Cutting, Winter, Keys

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• If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.

  Trip Hawkins

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Culture

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