Mistake Quotes
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The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.
Mark Zandi
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Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.
Andrea Jung
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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
Abraham Lincoln
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
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Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.
Artur Boruc
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
A. A. Milne
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
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It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
Bashar al-Assad
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When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.
Spalding Gray
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Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.
Biz Stone -
My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."
Marianne Williamson
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We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Amy Poehler
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
J. Christopher Herold
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
Colin Quinn
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I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
Maurice Wilkins
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
Garry Winogrand
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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
Freya Stark
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Never mistake the enthusiasm of the minority for the support of the majority.
Neil Kinnock
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Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare — which is perhaps, for both, the fact of not existing. Every art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, every work is the implementation of this original fault, from which come to us a new light and a risky conception of plenitude.
Maurice Blanchot