Biggest Mistake Quotes - Page 5

• The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Mistake, Thinking, Marketing

  Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein (2011). “The Twitter Book”, p.189, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.

  Steve Squyres

  Mistake, Thinking, Views

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• Learn to think and judge for yourself, responsibly. Don't accept everything without criticism and as absolutely true, everything which is brought to your attention. Learn from life. The biggest mistake of my life was that I believed everything faithfully which came from the top, and I didn't dare to have the least bit of doubt about the truth of that which was presented to me. Walk through life with your eyes open. Don't become one-sided; examine the pros and cons in all matters.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Mistake, Eye, Thinking

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• The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

  David M. Shoup

  Mistake, Adventure, Fighting

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• With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just because they're pretty." Donia laughed, coldly, sounding every bit Beira's creature in that moment. "Where were you when I needed that advice? I've already gone out with the biggest mistake a girl can make.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Mistake, Guy

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• The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

  Luanne Rice

  Mistake, Love Is, Thinking

  Luanne Rice (2009). “Follow the Stars Home”, p.278, Bantam

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• The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mistake

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• I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Mistake, Reality, Would Be

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• The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

  Howard Gardner

  Inspirational, Education, Mistake

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• The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

  Dorian Yates

  Strength, Mistake, Motivational Workout

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• The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.238, Triumph Books

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• I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

  Steve Ballmer

  Love, Jobs, Mistake

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• Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

  Ben Affleck

  Mistake, Directors, Actors

  "Oscar Watch: Why Affleck's 'Argo' Hits the Zeitgeist, Early Reviews" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Real, Mistake

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