Mistake Quotes - Page 12

• The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

  Ayrton Senna

  Being Yourself, Get Better

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• Oh, I'm sure I've made my share of (mistakes). I don't think I've made more than my fair share of them, although I think more has been made of the ones that I've made.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Share, Made

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• It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in local activities, get involved in local initiatives, be involved in leadership positions because you can’t learn unless you are involved. And if you make mistakes that is alright too because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Important, Rising

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• I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

  Kim Wilde

  Numbers, America, Would Be

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• The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

  LeBron James

  Athlete, Kids, Thinking

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Motivation, Character, Mean

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• Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

  Garry Winogrand

  Emotion, Photographer, Sometimes

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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Errors, Indulge In

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Janet's Repentance' ch. 25

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• Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Vanity, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.99

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• It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.158, Routledge

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• Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Vanity, Generosity

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• The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.

  Victor Manuel Rivera

  Christian, Fall, Inspiration

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• I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.

  Luke Johnson

  Failure, Learning, Ideas

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• Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Failure, Notion

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• Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Failure, Adversity

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• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Commitment, Heaven, Saint

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• Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

  Tony Buzan

  Motivational, Growing Up, Thinking

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• I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

  Richard Bacon

  Regret, Stupid, Silly

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• Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

  Al D'Amato

  Regret, Making Mistakes, Allies

  "More Americans: Iraq Worth Going to War". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, False Hope, Swept Away

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Agitation, Answers

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Long, Profound, Climate

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Ideas, Trade Zone

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.235, Temple University Press

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• The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Past, Visions Of The Future

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 18, 2011

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