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mistake power order
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
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
not-good-enough important able
It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it. Dana Perino
not-good-enough improvement catalyst
An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement. David J. Anderson
not-good-enough needs information
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information. Clayton Christensen
not-good-enough driving guru
The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really contingent on where you are on the spectrum from "not good enough" to "more than good enough," relative to each tier of the market.
not-good-enough feels kinship
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that. Baz Luhrmann
not-good-enough important criticism
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. Kevin Bacon
not-good-enough mind may
Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough. Iyanla Vanzant
not-good-enough acting actors
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that. Gary Oldman
not-good-enough revolution moments
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. George Bernard Shaw