Mistake Quotes - Page 22

• You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Hurt, Thinking, Saving

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• Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Opportunity, Hands

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• This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Jobs, Technology, Clouds

  "'Our industry does not respect tradition': CEO Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. February 4, 2014.

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• If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Parent

  "The 11 Rules Of Life" by Evelyn Pelczar, www.elitedaily.com. February 13, 2013.

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• In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Errors, Littles

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• I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Decision, Cost

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• It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Learn From Your Mistakes

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• The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

  Eric Schmidt

  Networking, Social Network, Made

  "Eric Schmidt's 2014 predictions: big genomics and smartphones everywhere". Bloomberg Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.

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• I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jokes

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• George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Race, Hands

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Enemy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

  David Brin

  Errors, Self, Deception

  David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

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• You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  People, Important, Too Late

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.651, Spectra

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• We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

  Hannah More

  Lying, Exercise, Ordinary

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447

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• If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

  Robert Greene

  Honor, Doubt, Execution

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.13, Profile Books

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• If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

  Robert Greene

  Self Esteem, Trying, Patterns

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.118, Profile Books

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wall, Men, Thinking

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Thug, People, Safety

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.

  Ward Lambert

  Team, Winning, Growth

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• I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away, she explained in an interview with Parade.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Empathy, World

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• I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

  Jens Lehmann

  Two, Insulting, Saws

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• FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

  Joe Orton

  Running, Integrity, Men

  Joe Orton (2014). “Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...”, p.255, A&C Black

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• I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

  Devendra Banhart

  Waiting

  Song: Won’t You Come Over, Album: Mala, 2013

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• I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization

  Peter L. Berger

  Thinking, Hands, Argument

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• They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is a mistake in my opinion. Ether's opponents refer to the experiments of Maykelson - Morli [Michelson-Morley] who made attempts to detect the Earth's movement relative to the fixed-bed ether. These experiments failed, however it didn't mean the ether's non-existence. I always based as fact the existence of mechanical ether in my works and therefore I could achieve positive success.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, People, Bed

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