Quotes about mistake
mistake self-esteem looks
It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem. Nathaniel Branden
mistake acknowledge reluctant
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.
mistake self goal
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.
mistake said made
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'. Moss Hart
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.
mistake artist records
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. Robert Fripp
mistake past self
Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be. Robert Frost
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 opinion conclusion
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
mistake people making-mistakes
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
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
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 believe thinking
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred. Thomas Schelling
mistake heart opportunity
Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours. Thomas S. Monson
mistake novices firsts
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
mistake school past
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results. Thomas Sowell
mistake circles people
The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.
mistake believe government
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.
mistake decision vision
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
mistake weapons nuclear
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. Robert McNamara