Mistake Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.

  Kevin Keegan

  Purpose

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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 is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

  Carlos Slim

  Making Mistakes, Important

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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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• I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Spiritual, Taken, Impossible Things

  Augustus De Morgan (1863). “From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years'experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers”, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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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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• There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  Rick Scott

  Taken, Responsibility, Leader

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• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  James Q. Wilson

  School, Monopoly, Function

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• I remember my mistakes more than my success.

  Adrian Peterson

  Nfl, Remember, My Mistakes

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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Gary Bauer

  Hurt, Law, America

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• When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

  Charlie McCreevy

  Trying, Havens

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• Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?

  Rachel Maddow

  Memories, War, Men

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", February 27, 2009.

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• Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

  John C. Calhoun

  Learn From Your Mistakes

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• It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Mean, Responsibility

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.

  Alex Ferguson

  Team, Years, Two

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• When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.

  Peter Medawar

  Constitution Of The United States, Purpose, Fool

  "Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography". Book by Peter Medawar, Oxford University Press, p. 117, 1986.

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• Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, Growing, Problem

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• The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.

  Joe Meno

  Fall, Boys, Men

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.308, Akashic Books

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• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  Eric Ries

  Senior, People, Rooms

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.235, Crown Business

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• The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

  William Ralph Inge

  Mind, Important, Statistics

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Writing, Ideas

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• I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.

  Martina Hingis

  Smart, People, Age

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• I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.

  Abraham Foxman

  Party, Israel, Two

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