Making Mistakes Quotes - Page 27

• It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mistake, Lying, Idle

  "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#13780, Part 14), 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

  Edwin Land

  Mistake, History, Way

  "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" by Victor K. McElheny, (p. 198), 1998.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

  Hermann Goring

  Mistake, Goering, Firsts

  xxx

  136 Copy quote

  Show source

• In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.

  Bill Gates

  Mistake, Way, Feels

  6 Copy quote

• I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

  Mika

  Mistake, Stupid, Why Not

  "Amazing Grace" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2007.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

  Lucille Ball

  Mistake, Years, Mad

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 212), 1996.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

  Bill Moyers

  Mistake, Journalism, Libel

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.109, Anchor

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong - they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mistake, Leader, Gone

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 82-83), 1964.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Falling In Love, Mistake, Imagination

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.108, Wesleyan University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

  David Gemmell

  Mistake, Failing, Everyone Makes Mistakes

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 10, May 1, 1988.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

  David Gemmell

  Mistake, Son, Men

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.81, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do?

  Chris Christie

  Mistake, Lying, People

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 154), 1986.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

  Murray Walker

  Mistake, Filters, Made

  "The Final Pit Stop" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.

  Erik Naggum

  Mistake, Insane, Doe

  "Lisp's future". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 31, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

  Liu Dan

  Mistake, Tests, Ability

  6 Copy quote

• When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.

  Peter Schiff

  Running, Mistake, Government

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"Peter Schiff: 'Crash Proof'", www.youtube.com. May 06, 2009.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.

  Dido Armstrong

  Mistake, Hiding Something, Hiding

  4 Copy quote

• If we make mistakes, as we all do - don't run from God, run to Him.

  T. B. Joshua

  Running, Mistake, Ifs

  "Bewitching Favour". Africa News, September 22, 2009.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Mistake, Blessed, Men

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.96, John Wiley & Sons

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

  Claudio Ranieri

  Mistake, Champions League, League

  "Chelsea are banking on Italian job". cnn.com. October 21, 2003.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Inherent in being proactive and trying things and not waiting to be told what to do is the fact that you're going to fail, you're going to make mistakes, and you're probably going to piss people off. And if you're not pissing people off, if you don't have haters, if you're not putting yourself in a situation that has some risks associated with it, you're probably not going to realize your full potential.

  Gina Bianchini

  Mistake, People, Waiting

  "INSTANT MBA: If You Don't Have Haters, You Won't Realize Your Full Potential" by Melissa Stanger, www.businessinsider.com. November 13, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

  Trip Hawkins

  Mistake, Entrepreneur, Territory

  "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Mistake, Teaching

  5 Copy quote

• The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.

  David Plotz

  Christian, Jesus, Mistake

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source