Mistake Quotes - Page 33

• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

  Ben Horowitz

  Communication, Ambition, Organization

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• We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.

  S. N. Goenka

  Dream, Past, Forever

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• Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Unhappy, Normalcy, Actors

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

  Randy Alcorn

  Teacher, Children, Law

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.609, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

  Randy Alcorn

  Grace, Balance, Ministry

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• I'm ashamed of what I did, but I'm not ashamed of what I've done to correct my mistakes..... I'm proud of who I am.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Who I Am, Done, Proud

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• People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, People, Example

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• I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.

  Zach Braff

  People, Giving, Upset

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Believe, Taken, Mean

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• Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Victory, Favors

  Bob Knight, Bob Hammel (2013). “The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.

  Denis Johnson

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Home

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• There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

  John C. Lilly

  Errors, Program

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Demise, Truth Is

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• But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

  Akio Morita

  Same Mistakes, Made A Mistake, Making The Same Mistakes

  "The Sony vision" by Nick Lyons, (p. 101), 1976.

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• The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

  Akio Morita

  Views, Important, Blame

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 149), 1986.

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• The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

  Caroline Knapp

  Fear, Mean, Self

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• Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Confused, Acting, Way

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

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• I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Past, Movement, Admiration

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• You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

  Scott Stapp

  Proud, Records, Admiration

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• The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Marketing, Needs

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• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  J. D. Hayworth

  War, Apology, Differences

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• When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Art, Positive Thinking, Fighter

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• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Strong, Differences

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• You make a mistake, you keep going.

  Linda Gray

  Never Quit, Quitting, Keep Going

  "Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas'". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2000.

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• When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Golf, Play

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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