Mistake Quotes - Page 14

• The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Diagnosis, Evolution, Victim

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• From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Character

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• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Business, Independent, Sheep

  Across the Board The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent June 1977

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• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Bridges

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• It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Bible, Biblical, Looks

  William Sloane Coffin (2012). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.62, UPNE

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Good Friend, Evil

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• Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Good Luck, Merit, Disaster

  J. Christopher Herold (2016). “Bonaparte In Egypt [Illustrated Edition]”, p.559, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Block, Creativity, Opportunity

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• Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Inspiring, Regret, Positivity

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

  Wess Roberts

  Failure, Trying, Enough

  Wess Roberts (2012). “Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun: 1,500 Years Ago Attila Got the Competitive Edge. Now He Tells You How You Can Get It, Too--His Way”, p.1, Dell

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• Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

  Price Pritchett

  Honesty, Cover Ups, Honest

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  All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

  Sophocles

  Character, Pride, Men

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Islamic, Lessons, Used

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• Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Education, Learning, Garden

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• It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Paper

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• Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.

  Scott Mandia

  Roots, Errors, Virginia

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• A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Good Friend, Secret, Treasure

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• I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

  Jerry Gillies

  Decision, Brain, Information

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• People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit the slightest mistake, they should quit their office on moral grounds without waiting to be proved guilty. Moral values must take centre stage in all walks of life.

  D. R. Karthikeyan

  People, Office, Waiting

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• It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

  Cassia Leo

  Character, Lessons, Shows

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• Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part of the American and other governments to discount them as nothing more substantial than mistakes made by naïve individuals. Their performance, observed repeatedly by expert witnesses, remains as far off the scale today as it was in the 1940s.

  Don Berliner

  Government, Effort, Experts

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• I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

  Jack Johnson

  Boxing, Made, Rings

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• Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.

  Mark Suster

  Moving, Knowing, Entrepreneur

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• Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

  Thanhha Lai

  Stubborn, Being Stubborn, Fluent

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

  Jeff Goodby

  Trying, Looks, Advertising

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