Mistake Quotes - Page 25

• It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Risk, Special

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Damage Is Done, Medical, Patient

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• All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.  Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Reality, Thinking, Expression

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Letters From Emptiness", p. 33, 2002.

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• At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Self, Years

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

  Henry Ford

  Things In Life, Life Is, Values

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• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Umpires, Justice

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• The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

  Peter Drucker

  Safe, Phony, Distrust

  "Management".

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• Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Winning, Games

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• The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

  Ruud Gullit

  More Time

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• Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Running, Lying, Believe

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• I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Television, Radio, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

  Lucian Leape

  Errors, Punishment, Medicine

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• Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.

  Kevin Keegan

  Purpose

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• My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.

  Diego Maradona

  Kids, Products

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• When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

  John Petrucci

  Strong, Player, Thinking

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• Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Real, Writing

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• Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

  Reed Hastings

  Apples, Orange, People

  "Steve Jobs 'Saturday Night Live' Skit Hits Web" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2011.

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• It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

  Carlos Slim

  Making Mistakes, Important

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• It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

  Thomas Sankara

  Stars, Men, Views

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• After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question....Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Unity, Facts

  "Calgary Sun" Newspaper, May 6, 2001.

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• I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Spiritual, Taken, Impossible Things

  Augustus De Morgan (1863). “From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years'experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers”, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  School, Doubt, Film

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• I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

  Rick Scott

  Thinking, Stimulus, Absolutes

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2010.

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• There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  Rick Scott

  Taken, Responsibility, Leader

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• The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

  Arthur W. Pink

  People, Christ, Lord

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.376, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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