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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.
laughing waiting cry
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait. Charles Dickens
laughing soul enemy
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.
laughing belly belly-laughs
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. Alan Bradley
laughing doubt independence
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself. Alan Alda
laughing joy joy-of-life
I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it. Chita Rivera
laughing people magic
I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic. Dave Chappelle
laughing people listening
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. David Sedaris
laughing news bigs
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
laughing people flaws
The one flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing. Buddy Ebsen
overcoming method form
For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method. Alan Watts
overcoming about-success happens
Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome. Chris Bosh
overcoming dignity individual
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now. Chogyam Trungpa
overcoming finals segregation
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. Carter G. Woodson
overcoming statements five
Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement Bill Kirby
overcoming complaining ifs
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. Bernard Baruch
overcoming common environment
I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it. Bill Walsh
overcoming birth young-women
I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories. Ariel Winter
overcoming-evil excellence looks
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence. Anthony Trollope