Mistake Quotes - Page 3

• Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

  Amos Tversky

  Wisdom, Fall, Simple

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• Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

  Isocrates

  Faithful, Praise, Criticize

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.841, Delphi Classics

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  If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Moving On, Business

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• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Humorous, Beer

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  Pauline Kael

  Anxiety, Judgement, Too Much

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Equality

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Trust, Motivation, Errors

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.3

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• In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

  Voltaire

  Ocean, Men, Errors

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.35

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• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Form, Prophecy

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

  Phil Knight

  Inspirational, Business, America

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• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

  Adam Osborne

  Encouraging, Business, Not Giving Up

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• It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

  John Bradshaw

  Education, Teacher, Wrestling

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• The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Running, Attitude

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• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

  Ornette Coleman

  Perseverance, Jazz, Found

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• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Fake People, Care

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• Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Feet, Firsts, Given

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Intuition”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Looks, Faults, Virtue

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.232, e-artnow

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• [In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, Two, Kind

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• Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

  Greer Garson

  Money, Starting Over, Starting Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Doug Larson

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

  William Magee

  Thinking, Feelings, Doe

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