Humphry Davy Quotes

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Things
  • Learned

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Learned
  • Manager

• It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Tough

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Society

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Name

• One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Me
  • Learned
  • Relax

• I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Never
  • Mistakes
  • Ring

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • People
  • Love
  • Today

• People don't like to make mistakes.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Like
  • Mistakes

• We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Wanted
  • Guitar
  • Learned

• I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Love
  • Chance

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • American
  • Past
  • Lost

• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Learned

• I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Long
  • Fire
  • Enough

• And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • My Life

• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Sleep
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness

• I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Mistakes
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