Biggest Mistake Quotes - Page 3

• The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.

  Andy Andrews

  Mistake, Believe, Parent

  "The Noticer Returns | An Interview With Andy Andrews". Interview with Matt Ham, mattham.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.

  Tommy Lee

  Beautiful, Mistake, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

  Gregory Benford

  Mistake

  Gregory Benford, Larry Niven (2014). “Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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• My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

  Mark Cuban

  Mistake, Lying, Entrepreneur

  "Mark Cuban Reveals The Best And Worst 'Shark Tank' Pitches And More". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2013.

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• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mistake, Book, Creativity

  "How to Win the 2012 Fiction Contest!" by Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

  Marc Singer

  Retirement, Mistake, Believe

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• The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising

  Jeff Goodby

  Mistake, Trying, Looks

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• The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Mistake, Complacency

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• The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Men, Doe

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• The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make is trying to do everything themselves. They usually blow up when they try. I did an inventory of every deal I've ever done and it turned out that every single deal I made money on was a partnership, and every colossal failure, where I lost millions, was something I tried to do by myself.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mistake, Blow, Entrepreneur

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

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• The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

  Brian De Palma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, Mistake, Cynical

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• That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

  Lance Armstrong

  Mistake, Decision, Reason

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Mistake, Overwhelmed, Slow Down

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.

  Umair Haque

  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

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• A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

  Steve McConnell

  Mistake, Blanket

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• Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

  Warren Buffett

  Get Well, Mistake, Thinking

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• The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Believe, Past

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• Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

  Michael Jackson

  Mistake, Thinking, Dancer

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• One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.

  Aaron Ross

  Mistake, Giving, Generations

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• My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Mistake, Worrying Too Much, Way

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• The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain.

  Elon Musk

  Mistake, Heart, Thinking

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• The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.

  Lillian Vernon

  Jobs, Mistake, Should Have

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• Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

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