Mistake Quotes - Page 23

• You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Fighting

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.

  William Shawcross

  Experience, World, Crime

  1979 Sideshow, after word.

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• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Individualism, Collectivism

  "Is Paul Ryan for or against Ayn Rand?" by Gary Weiss, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Risk, Special

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Damage Is Done, Medical, Patient

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• All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.  Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Reality, Thinking, Expression

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Letters From Emptiness", p. 33, 2002.

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• The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

  Peter Drucker

  Safe, Phony, Distrust

  "Management".

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• Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Winning, Games

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• Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Running, Lying, Believe

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• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Errors, Punishment, Medicine

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• My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.

  Diego Maradona

  Kids, Products

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• Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

  Reed Hastings

  Apples, Orange, People

  "Steve Jobs 'Saturday Night Live' Skit Hits Web" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2011.

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• It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

  Thomas Sankara

  Stars, Men, Views

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• Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  School, Doubt, Film

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• I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

  Rick Scott

  Thinking, Stimulus, Absolutes

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2010.

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• The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

  Arthur W. Pink

  People, Christ, Lord

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.376, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

  Russell Simmons

  Heart, Racism, Prejudice

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism", www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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• Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

  Peggy Hopkins Joyce

  Marriage, Two, People

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• The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

  Bernard Lewis

  Strong, Mean, Political

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• Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

  Karl Popper

  Evolution, Speed, Economics

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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 take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

  Kenneth Lay

  Responsibility, Criminals, Good And Bad

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• It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Serious, Taciturn

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• The successful leader must be willing
  to assume responsibility for the mistakes
  and the shortcomings of his followers.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Successful, Leader

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.94, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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