Mistake Quotes
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
Thomas A. Edison
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I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.
Harry Chapin
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I stand by every mistake I've ever made, so judge away.
Kristen Stewart
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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson
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One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.
Rachel Grace Held
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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
W. Edwards Deming
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I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.
John Gutfreund
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The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.
Seth Godin
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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.
Mark Walport
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The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.
Shane Carruth
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Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.
Carmen Cusack
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
George Gurdjieff
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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.
Anthony Robbins
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Gerry Cooney
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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.
Kofi Annan
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
Kurt Vonnegut
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If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
Mario Cuomo
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With a head coach, you make a mistake and learn. With a king, you make a mistake and get your head bitten off.
John Schnatter
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I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.
Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
Lisa See
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I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.
Anna Wickham
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!
J. R. R. Tolkien