Mistake Quotes - Page 37

• Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.

  Donald Keough

  Smart, America, Dumb

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• If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Advice, Doubt

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• I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Girl, Stupid, Lucky

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• Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Real, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

  Randall Cunningham

  Years, Practice, Games

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

  John Wooden

  Team, Winning, Doers

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• Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

  Sarah Kay

  Night, Decision, Forgiving

  Sarah Kay's Commencement Address at Scripps College in Claremont, California, www.scrippscollege.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

  Steve Albini

  Labels, Band, Letters

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• When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!

  Steven Saylor

  Kings, Boys, Men

  Steven Saylor (2007). “Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.168, Macmillan

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• There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.

  Kin Hubbard

  Home, Together, Trying

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• I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Sometimes, Wonder, Sin

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.240, Serpent's Tail

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• I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

  Bob Goff

  Past, Views, Want Something

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Mean, Emotional, World

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.156, Penguin

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• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Mean, Fighting

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• I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Distance, Mean

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

  Kary Mullis

  Science, Ideas, Lucky

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• To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Law, Psychology, Historical

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• I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

  Pal Benko

  Should Have, Psychology, Littles

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• Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Psychology, Pencils

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• The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Love

  "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".

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• How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
  By watching how you correct yours.
  How do children learn to overcome their failures?
  By watching how you overcome yours.
  How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
  By watching you forgive yourself.

  William Martin

  Children, Forgiving, Overcoming

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• The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

  James C. Collins

  Business, People, Needs

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Past, Meditation And Yoga

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• Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

  Georges Carpentier

  Life, Interesting, Ifs

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• This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

  Roberto Benigni

  Oscars, Used, Terrible

  Roberto Benigni's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1999.

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