Mistake Quotes - Page 28

• I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Athlete, Games

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Dwelling, People, Political

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

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• Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.

  L. William Seidman

  Political, Looks, Care

  "Bill Seidman's Brilliant Advice To Regulators" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivation, Imagination, Firsts

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• When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ignorance

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• The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

  Princess Diana

  Forgiveness, Long, Forgiving

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• It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Order, Lust

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  "Fly-fishing the High Country". Book by John Gierach, 1984.

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• Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

  Lefty Kreh

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Lefty Kreh (1991). “Longer Fly Casting”, Lyons Press

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• Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Dogs don't make mistakes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Life, Dog

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.392

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• It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

  Norton Juster

  Inspirational, Princess, Climbing

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Religious, Real, Taken

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• Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

  Scott McClellan

  Thinking, Order, Issues

  "McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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• I don't need my name in lights
  I'm famous in my Father's eyes
  Make no mistake
  He knows my name.

  Francesca Battistelli

  Father, Eye, Light

  Song: He Knows My Name, Album: If We're Honest, 2014

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• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Kindness, War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.

  Drew Houston

  Real, School, Risk

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• We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

  Larry Crabb

  Healing, Psych, Community

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• It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.

  Julius Evola

  Military, Believe, Pride

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• Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

  Alain Ducasse

  Memories, Memorable, Guests

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• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  Bill Klem

  Team, Umpires, Trying

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Evil, Islam, Blame

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• You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

  Norton Juster

  Phantom Tollbooth, Children Book, Childrens Book

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I never make a mistake on the first move!

  Ernst Grunfeld

  Moving, Firsts

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• Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

  Robert Smithson

  Mean, Artist, Problem

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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