Quotes about mist
mistake men madness
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
mistake thinking law
I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench. William Howard Taft
mistake thinking ohio
There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.
mistake thinking hens
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves. Willa Cather
mistake perfect spirit
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. Walter Lang
mistake thinking feet
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. Walter Lippmann
mistake errors degrees
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
mistake ocean men
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. Voltaire
mistake errors age
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
mistake men over-confident
Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident. William Feather
mistake focus kitchen
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen. William Pollard
mistake people
Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others. William Prescott
mistake math understanding
It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy. William Raspberry
mistake might reader
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. William Randolph Hearst
mistake mind important
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. William Ralph Inge
mistress affection masters
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. William Lilly
mistake culture institutions
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. William Irwin Thompson
mistake ifs right-thing
Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing. Will Arnett
mistake giving support
We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning. Walter Wriston
mistake eye thinking
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
mistake people specialists
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. Walter Gropius
mistake golf perfect
I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven. Walter Hagen
mistake hostility
Mistakes can occur during hostilities. Vladimir Putin
mistake balance world
We have made mistakes! We were too late. If we had presented our national interests more clearly from the beginning, the world would still be in balance today.
mistake mean thinking
I have criticized foreign policy, but that does not mean that we should agree with everything. Indeed, we criticize a lot of things, we think that our partners make many mistakes [may be we make mistakes too, no one is immune to making mistakes], but as for the economy, I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path.
mistake writing errors
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment. Yevgeny Zamyatin
mistake desire prejudice
And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.
mistake want
I don't want to make the wrong mistake. Yogi Berra
mistake thinking office
I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it? Winona Ryder
mistake safety path
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety. Winston Churchill
mistake dwelling people
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.
mistake military should
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
mistake corporations language
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. William Zinsser