Quotes about mistake
mistake trying enough
If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough. Vince Lombardi
mistake memorable games
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board. Viktor Korchnoi
mistake thinking apples
We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible. Robert Glaser
mistake miracle church
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory. Robert Green Ingersoll
mistake lying two
He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
mistake people together
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together. Sandra Cisneros
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.
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.
mistake men physicians
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.
mistake drinking food
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 call-me crackpots
Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake. Warren Beatty
mistake people trying
It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around. Warren Buffett
mistake games names
Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.
mistake decision ifs
If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.
mistake smart long-ago
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.
mistake banking ratios
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.
mistake people learn-from-your-mistakes
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
mistake long investing
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.