Quotes about mistake
mistake writing what-matters
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? Arthur Conan Doyle
mistakes played
We played hard, but we had a lot of mistakes.
mistakes simple sloppy tackling
Well, we were still kind of sloppy in the first half. We made a lot of simple mistakes in tackling and, again, penalties.
mistake simple silence
Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. Elif Safak
mistake cures falsehood
Falsehood falsehood cures William Shakespeare
mistake
Only he who does nothing makes a mistake
mistake intuition quality
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
mistake people playing politics reported sad
Two young people made a mistake that the DSCC reported immediately to the U.S. attorney. It's sad and unfortunate that the Republicans are playing politics with this incident.
mistake screwed trying
I screwed up, ... I was just trying to make something happen, and I made a mistake I shouldn't have. Brian Roberts
mistakes past successful
Over the past week-and-a-half, we haven't been successful and I started to make mistakes on the bench. Larry Robinson
mistake stayed
My mistake was I stayed there too long, Bobby Knight
mistake people helping
Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember. Alice Hoffman
mistake golf player
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. Alice Cooper
mistake decision needs
My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake. Anne Lamott
mistake making-mistakes who-you-are
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. Anne Lamott
mistake fall kids
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging. Anne Lamott
mistake blessing giving
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. Albert Camus
mistake philosophical joyful
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal. Albert Camus
mistake believe long
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. Albert Camus
mistake believe heart
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart. Albert Camus
mistake men waiting
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself. Albert Camus
mistake buddhism thinking
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. Annie Dillard
mistake good-man sometimes
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. Clayton Christensen
mistake laughing feelings
How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved. Daniel Keyes
mistake feedback expertise
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. Daniel Kahneman
mistake book people
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own. Daniel Kahneman
mistake mean people
Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake. Daniel Kahneman
mistake opportunity two
To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes. Daniel Kahneman
mistake promise ive-learned
I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end." -Bobby Pendragon D. J. MacHale
mistake lying home
I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly. D. A. Carson
mistake black machines
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. D. H. Lawrence
mistake emotional self
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. D. H. Lawrence
mistake men needs
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness. D. H. Lawrence