Mistake Quotes - Page 38

• Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them

  Walter Russell

  Eye, Thinking, Light

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• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean Girls, Iraq, Democracy

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• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Past, Studying History, Study

  'Listener' 6 June 1963

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• Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

  Valentine de Saint-Point

  Valentines Day, Political, Feminism

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• I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Astley Cooper

  Eye, Science, Spoiled

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• Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

  Hiroko Sakai

  Regret, Thinking, Done

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• Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

  E. W. Howe

  Honesty, Powerful, Character

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• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  Edgar Bergen

  Adversity, Overcoming, Pay

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• Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Shining, Time To Move On

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• Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

  David Seabury

  Fear, Self, Despair

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• Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Giving, Trying, Stronger

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Two, Focus

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• Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

  Kevin Barrett

  Historical, Fool, Politician

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• The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sitting, Doing Nothing

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• Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Mother, Children

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.167, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Two

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Trying, Ifs

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.59, Rodale

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• Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Grieving, Self

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• He [Andy Roddick] doesn't make mistakes, only when he has to.

  Andrew Castle

  Tennis, Making Mistakes

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• Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Drama, Men

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• I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

  Thomas Schelling

  Believe, Thinking, Iran

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Simple, Men, Boredom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Errors, Judgement

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Failure, Learning, Benefits

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• Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

  Mary Pickford

  Learning, Chance, Great Men

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