Mistake Quotes - Page 132

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera moves to the right. Then comes Kiev, then Moscow and then everything stops. This seems to be the West's view of us - of a wild Russia that begins past Moscow, a place one prefers not to see. This is a big mistake. The West must pay closer attention.

I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is a fake news story and what isn't and shut it off, or what's a good news organization or a bad news organization. That's a very, very slippery slope.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Delay is preferable to error.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.