Mistake Quotes - Page 38

• If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Inspiring, Careers, Way

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• Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Errors, Political

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Dancing, Watches

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

  John C. Maxwell

  Successful, Errors, Leader

  John C. Maxwell (1995). “Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Real, Mean

  "Adjusting Though Reflex: Romancing Zen". Book by Rodger Hyodo, p. 76, 2010.

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• Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.

  Myles Munroe

  Junk, Doe, Offers

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.217, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

  W. Brett Wilson

  Learning From Mistakes, Failing, Afraid To Fail

  W Brett Wilson (2012). “Redefining Success: Still Making Mistakes”, p.78, Penguin Canada

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• I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Life, Change, Regret

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• All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

  Moss Hart

  Made, Said, Lifeboats

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• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

  Judith Martin

  Grace, Wonderful, Social

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• If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

  Klaus Barbie

  Men, Barbie, Lines

  "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press". Book by Alexander Cockburn, p. 184, 1998.

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• When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.

  Ward Cunningham

  Trying, Cost, Might

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 1, 2003.

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• For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

  Eric Russell

  Book, Errors, Looks

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• If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Wind, People, Advice

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• I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

  Earl Butz

  Stubborn, Cuss Words, Made

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• I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Matter, Humans

  "Living, Loving & Learning".

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• I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

  John Sculley

  Enough Chances, Take A Chance, Found

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1988). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, a journey of adventure, ideas, and the future”, HarperCollins

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• Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

  Dick Armey

  Party, Player, America

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• So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Thinking, Today

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• I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Thinking, Literature, Language

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• You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

  Cynthia Weil

  Learning, Made, Process

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• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean Girls, Iraq, Democracy

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• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Past, Studying History, Study

  'Listener' 6 June 1963

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• I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Astley Cooper

  Eye, Science, Spoiled

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