Mistake Quotes - Page 26

• Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

  Terry Goodkind

  Character, Mark, Deals

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Naked Empire”, p.14, Head of Zeus

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• It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.

  Tony Stewart

  Hard

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• The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

  Gregory Benford

  Biggest Mistake

  Gregory Benford, Larry Niven (2014). “Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  James Q. Wilson

  School, Monopoly, Function

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• I remember my mistakes more than my success.

  Adrian Peterson

  Nfl, Remember, My Mistakes

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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Gary Bauer

  Hurt, Law, America

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• When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

  Charlie McCreevy

  Trying, Havens

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• I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

  Grover Cleveland

  Strong, Law, People

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

  Bobby Bowden

  Practice, Nfl

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• Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?

  Rachel Maddow

  Memories, War, Men

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", February 27, 2009.

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• Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

  John C. Calhoun

  Learn From Your Mistakes

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• It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Mean, Responsibility

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.

  Alex Ferguson

  Team, Years, Two

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• There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Pain, Powerful

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Made, Life Mistakes

  "Interests: charity work, skydiving" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2001.

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• Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

  Nellie L. McClung

  Pencils, Ifs, Erasers

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• When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.

  Peter Medawar

  Constitution Of The United States, Purpose, Fool

  "Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography". Book by Peter Medawar, Oxford University Press, p. 117, 1986.

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• Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, Growing, Problem

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• One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

  Susan Blackmore

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.

  Joe Meno

  Fall, Boys, Men

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.308, Akashic Books

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• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  Eric Ries

  Senior, People, Rooms

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.235, Crown Business

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• As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.

  Tom Glavine

  Hate, Errors, Games

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• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Army, Turkeys

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• I dont want to repeat my mistakes.

  Nastia Liukin

  Want, My Mistakes, Repeats

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• I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didn’t go to Steve Jobs and say, ‘Steve, let’s figure out how you can come back and lead your company.’ I didn’t do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I can’t figure out why I didn’t have the wisdom to do that. But I didn’t. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, New York, Years

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