Mistake Quotes - Page 36

• One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

  Herbie Mann

  Needs, Records, Advantage

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• Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

  Umar

  Hypocrite, Views, Support

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• A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Weakness, Might

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.

  Terry Eagleton

  Erosion, Play, Nebraska

  Terry Eagleton (2013). “How to Read Literature”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

  Clayton Christensen

  Good Man, Sometimes, Should

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

  Ben Horowitz

  Communication, Ambition, Organization

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• I'm ashamed of what I did, but I'm not ashamed of what I've done to correct my mistakes..... I'm proud of who I am.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Who I Am, Done, Proud

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• People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, People, Example

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Believe, Taken, Mean

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• Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Victory, Favors

  Bob Knight, Bob Hammel (2013). “The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Demise, Truth Is

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• But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

  Akio Morita

  Same Mistakes, Made A Mistake, Making The Same Mistakes

  "The Sony vision" by Nick Lyons, (p. 101), 1976.

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• The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

  Caroline Knapp

  Fear, Mean, Self

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• Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Confused, Acting, Way

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

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• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  J. D. Hayworth

  War, Apology, Differences

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• When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Art, Positive Thinking, Fighter

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• You make a mistake, you keep going.

  Linda Gray

  Never Quit, Quitting, Keep Going

  "Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas'". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2000.

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• When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Golf, Play

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Together, Twists

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Life would be dull without them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, Dull

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• The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Errors, Virtue, Disinterested

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

  Confucius

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Moral

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• Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Impossible Things, Understanding, Forgiving

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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Climbing, Routine Life, Hiking

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Effort, Trying

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