Mistake Quotes
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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
Paul J. Meyer
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.
Jay-Z
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When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.
Charles M. Blow
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I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.
Prabal Gurung
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Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.
Neil Finn Crowded House
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
Barbara Corcoran
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot
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What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.
John Lancaster Spalding
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If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith
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One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.
Brian Boitano
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Bob Woodward
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I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
Gary Larson
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
Ed Wynn
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
Karen Duffy
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Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.
Ana Ivanovic
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Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
Lindsay Duncan
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It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
David Blunkett
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.
Charles M. Schwab
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
Ed Balls