Quotes about mist
mistake ignorance self
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
mistake ignorance self
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
mistake war iraq
George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well. Marc Rich
mistake steps
Even mistakes can get you one step further. Marc Jacobs
mistake stupid humility
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away. Marc Maron
mistake humorous ideas
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Samuel Johnson
mistake eye vanity
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer. Samuel Johnson
mistake miscarriage men
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. Samuel Johnson
mistake men physicians
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence. Samuel Johnson
mistake drinking food
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Samuel Johnson
mistake spirit photograph
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. Sam Abell
mistake common excited
Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR. Sam Altman
mistake men stuff
I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was. Ryan Adams
mistake cutting thinking
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. Rowan Williams
mistake worst
One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans. Ronald Reagan
mistake thinking artist
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. Ronald Reagan
mistake believe law
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration. Ronald Reagan
mistake age made
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. Ronald Reagan
mistake hands cities
Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist. Robert Hughes
mistake thinking giving
I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society. Rocco Buttiglione
mistake past garden
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes. Roberto Burle Marx
mistress waste royal
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. Robertson Davies
mistake trying might
I don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes. Robert Pattinson
mistake
Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure . Robert Evans
mistake mean lessons
Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson. Wally Amos
mistake way rooms
The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies. Vinod Khosla
mistake thinking important
Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake. Viswanathan Anand
mistake hard-work long
Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work. Viswanathan Anand
mistake usual leaves-of-grass
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. Walt Whitman
mistake firsts arguing
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. Saul Bellow
mistake rap ghetto
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. Saul Williams
mistake hate games
As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake. Tom Glavine
mistake useless
Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless. Todd Akin