Quotes about mistake
mistake party negative-experiences
The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved. Mao Zedong
mistake people truth-is
Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.
mistake errors levels
Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.
mistake sometimes enough
Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough. Madison Smartt Bell
mistake fall ants
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. Madeleine L'Engle
mistake home jail
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail. Lynne Stewart
mistake people freak
No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Lynne Truss
mistake expectations wish
It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. Lucy Larcom
mistake writing thinking
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.
mistake benefits same-mistakes
Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones". Lucy Maud Montgomery
mistake comforting limits
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought
mistake laughing overcoming
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
mistake boys thinking
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm. Louisa May Alcott
mistake actors aspect
If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors. John Frankenheimer
mistake shows true-worth
Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth. John Flanagan
mistake learning what-if
But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.
mistake heart knowing
Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down. Jonathan Franzen
mistake eye way-to-live
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it. Jonathan Coe
mistake ownership made
I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made. Jon Runyan
mistake ideas catholic
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background. Jon Voight
mistake believe creativity
The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong. Jonah Lehrer
mistake
A mistake pitch. I wanted it down and in, something he'd have to chase.
mistake order
a mistake of the first order from every perspective. Ariel Sharon
mistakes
All of the mistakes we've made are very correctable,
mistake science genius
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes. Edward Teller
mistake world pay
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes? Edward Dahlberg
mistake thinking perception
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono
mistake wine alcohol
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink. Gilbert K. Chesterton
mistake goes-on world
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
mistake ignorance men
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? Holbrook Jackson
mistake thinking kind
They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded. Holly Black
mistake common-sense finding-yourself
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong. Herman Wouk
mistake writing style
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow