Mistake Quotes - Page 27

• It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Thinking

  Television interview, 1987.

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• Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

  Gordon Moore

  Errors, Entrepreneur, Trial And Error

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

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Humorous, Errors, Gambling

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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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• I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

  Martha Stewart

  Good Life, Return, Good Work

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• Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

  Michael Dell

  Littles, Obstacles, Acknowledge

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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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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• Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Science, Men

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Failure, Two, People

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Training, Management

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• What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

  David Gill

  Grief, Reality, Wife

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• Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

  Frank Medlicott

  Running, Reality, Thinking

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• It was just a bad game. On the first goal, I just made a mistake and got scored on and it just snowballed from there. It happens sometimes. You don't want it, but it's the reality. I just have to refocus.

  Tomas Vokoun

  Reality, Games, Goal

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• He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.

  Pat Haden

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

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• Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Names, Giving

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• The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Path, Being Afraid

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• The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

  Robert I. Sutton

  Single, Character, Organization

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• First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Faithful, Promise

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

  Charles Hermite

  Truth, Independent, Math

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• All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Math, Following

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• The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

  Dean Acheson

  Office, Political, Politics

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