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mistake commitment routine
Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough. Tommy Amaker
mistake years people
It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing. Tom Verlaine
mistake eye blood
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed. Victor Hugo
mistake thinking together
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous. Victor Hugo
mistake men pay
men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it. Vicki Baum
mistake creativity dark
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. Vernon Howard
mistake blessing practice
There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was. Richard Bach
mistake unexpected learning-experience
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. Richard Bach
mistake people wonderful
People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.
mistake mean men
Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake. Rita Rudner
mistake writing years
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years. Richard Marshall
mistake believe thinking
I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them. Richard Madden
mistake people drones
How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that. Richard Engel
mistake passionate debate
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. Richard Dreyfuss
mistake careers people
At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. Renee Fleming
mistake enemy gains
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. Thomas Paine
mistake annoyed abuse
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you... And as to the curs which will bark and yelp - you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead - I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness. Thomas Huxley
mistake people making-mistakes
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. Thomas Huxley
mistake lapses may
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... Thomas Browne
mistake choices easier
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. Timothy Geithner
mistress lines cabinets
The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public? Timothy Garton Ash
mistake years two
Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat. Timothy Leary
mistake thinking sight
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. Rumi
mistake answers way
Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.' Rumi
mistake punishment demand
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible... Tom Peters
mistake issues design
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything. Tom Peters
mistake bigger be-encouraged
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better. Tom Peters
mistake it-is-what-it-is
It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. Tom Robbins
mistake eye hands
I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent... Tom Folsom
mistake dollars null
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. Tony Hoare
mistake kind defined
We're kind of defined by our mistakes Tommy Shaw
mistake blue phones
I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life. That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover. Steve Wozniak
mistake thinking parent
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes. Steve Schirripa