Mistake Quotes
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It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.
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Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
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I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again.
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The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.
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Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.
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From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
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We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
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When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
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No one should make the mistake of thinking that three or four movies are going to change their fate.
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I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
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One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
