Big Mistake Quotes - Page 5

• Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Mistake, Civilization

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Stone Gods”, p.78, Penguin UK

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• If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

  Steve Jobs

  Mistake, Dark, Winning

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mistake, Thinking, Expression

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Express Yourself Fully", p. 8, 2002.

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• If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.

  Chick Willis

  Mistake, Taste, Bones

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• Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Mistake, Frustration, Choices

  "I feel angry, jealous, self-obsessed and lost - and I need to change" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2013.

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• A big mistake in politics is to think that because an issue appears to have been settled, it doesn't exist anymore. You just sweep it under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist.

  Philippe Couillard

  Mistake, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• All the things that Hillary Clinton has changed. OK, she used to be strong at the border. Now everyone could stay. She used to have a crime bill; "sorry about that." She used to be for welfare reform. That was a big mistake. "Libya wasn't my job; it's Barack Obama's." The TPP was the - was the gold standard for trade deals. "I hate the TPP." So she changed on everything. What is she voting for, who are you voting for? What are we doing here? She's going to win it just on recognition.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Strong, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

  Meles Zenawi

  Mistake, Order, Would Be

  "Western world cannot impose democracy in Africa: Ethiopian PM". AFP, January 25, 2008.

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• Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Done, Should

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

  Winona Ryder

  Mistake, Careers, Brilliant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

  Norman Finkelstein

  Military, War, Mistake

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

  Michael Dertouzos

  Mistake, Technology, Years

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• I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or, unfortunately, undermining human rights. Some cosmopolitans take the metaphor of global citizenship - the etymology of the word, after all, just comes from a Greek phrase meaning citizen of the world - to rule out taking national citizenship seriously. I think that's a big mistake. Why can't I be loyal to America and to humanity? After all, I can be loyal to America and to New York city!

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Mistake, Thinking, Greek

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Diaries

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.149, Penguin

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• Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

  Lauryn Hill

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Mistake, Views

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• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

  George William Curtis

  Teenage, Mistake, Believe

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• My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Mistake

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• Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sex, Mistake, Judging

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• The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Mistake, Sitting

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• We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mistake, Law, People

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, p.12, David C Cook

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• I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Memories, Mistake, Leaving

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books

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