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• Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mean, People, Mind

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• Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

  Tim Harford

  Fixing, Firsts, First Time

  "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". Book by Tim Harford, 2011.

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• Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Imagination, Facts, Accurate

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.94, Vintage

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• My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

  Anastacia

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

  "Anastacia fights on after cancer operation". news.bbc.co.uk. March 4, 2003.

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• I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

  Tiger Woods

  Fun, Control Myself, People

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• But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Iraq, Sovereign

  "60 minutes" with Mike Wallace, www.cbsnews.com. May 7, 2005.

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• So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Years, People, Worry

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• That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasn’t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Taken, Self

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• Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

  Lois Capps

  Organization, Ruthless, Terrorist

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• My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

  Neil Diamond

  Voice, Perfection, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  Zoe Lofgren

  War, Taken, Iraq

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• Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

  India.Arie

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Song: A Beautiful Day

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• A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Bullshit, Protest

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Moving, White, World

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• Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Opportunity, Hands

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• This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Jobs, Technology, Clouds

  "'Our industry does not respect tradition': CEO Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Book, Historical, Mind

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation”

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• I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Decision, Cost

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• I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jokes

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• George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Race, Hands

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Enemy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

  David Brin

  Errors, Self, Deception

  David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

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• If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

  Robert Greene

  Self Esteem, Trying, Patterns

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.118, Profile Books

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wall, Men, Thinking

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.

  Ward Lambert

  Team, Winning, Growth

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