Serious Mistakes Quotes - Page 2

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Richard L. Evans

Mistake, Men, Perspective

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Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

Carl Sagan

Teamwork, Mistake, Missing

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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Paulo Coelho

Fashion, Confused, Mistake

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My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.

William O'Neil

Running, Mistake, Philosophy

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Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

Antonis Samaras

Mistake, Government, Serious

"Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Nadia Boulanger

Music, Mistake, Serious

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If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

Dick Cheney

Mistake, Thinking, Unemployment

"Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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