Mistake Quotes - Page 39

• Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

  Hiroko Sakai

  Regret, Thinking, Done

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• Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

  David Seabury

  Fear, Self, Despair

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• Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Giving, Trying, Stronger

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Two, Focus

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• Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

  Kevin Barrett

  Historical, Fool, Politician

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Two

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Trying, Ifs

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.59, Rodale

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• He [Andy Roddick] doesn't make mistakes, only when he has to.

  Andrew Castle

  Tennis, Making Mistakes

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• Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Drama, Men

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• Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

  Thomas Malory

  Long, Wit, Wells

  Sir Thomas Malory (1968). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”

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• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

  Freya Stark

  Belief, Fear Of Failure, Static

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.

  Felix Sabates

  Happened

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• No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

  Thomas Huxley

  Clever, People, Causes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is not life unless you make mistakes

  Joan Collins

  Inspirational, Making Mistakes, Life Is

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• Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

  Bill Maher

  Past, Order, Wiser

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• But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Echoes, May, Gaps

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Writing, Two, Reform

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• The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

  Honore de Balzac

  Spring, Errors

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• Mistakes are their own instructors

  Horace

  Instructors

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• Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• Falsehood falsehood cures

  William Shakespeare

  Cures, Falsehood

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1169, Oxford University Press

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• God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  God, Persistence, Agony

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• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Style, Pieces

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• Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Body, Separating

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Mind, Laziness

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.68, Advaita Ashrama

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