“Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.” WinningMistakeBattleSevenGoddessInteriorsExteriorKali Author:Jennifer Beals
“A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.” WarWinningPeaceMistakeBattle Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.” KnowsMadeMovingMistakeMilitaryBattleBiggerVietnamTroopsMade A MistakeMilitary HistoryAmerican Military Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.” PeopleThinkingHumansLooksMadeWarMomentsMightMistakeTakenStupidReaderBattleScaredConfusedCourageousCombatConfusingMoment Of Truth Author:Horst Faas
“As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."” WarMistakeEnemyMilitaryBattleIsraeliBig Mistake Author:Norman Finkelstein
“The problem with an economic meltdown is that the responsibility and the challenges to deal with the environment are squandered. That's an age-old battle in terms of the major conflicts in places like Afghanistan, etc. So there are age-old battles that'll keep going on. Unfortunately, man is a very slow learner, and we tend to repeat mistakes, as opposed to learning from mistakes.” MenProblemTermChallengesMistakeResponsibilityEnvironmentEconomicBattleConflictKeep GoingAfghanistanLearning From Mistakes Author:John Hillcoat
“And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first cartoonist in the country to attack the war in Viet Nam and that helped influence a whole generation of young cartoonists who later on took up the battle. And that was exciting to know that I had helped influence work of young people who were moving this forum into a better and more exciting area, out of the more by the state that political cartooning had been in.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryMovingPoliticalMistakeInfluenceBattleExcitingCartoonCartoonist Author:Jules Feiffer
“That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.” IfsMenHumansMadeEyeImaginationMistakeSunDoubtFieldsBattleThousandWeaponsHundredSickSurpriseDetailsWoundsRememberedMy ImaginationMade A MistakeRiddleArsenalDandelions Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.” MenRealOpportunityNationsLosesDifferencesDecisionMistakeWiseSeriousFoolBattleCrucialTrustedSerious Mistakes Book:Clear and Present Danger Source: Clear and Present Danger
“All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.” IfsLyingGrowsLosesMistakeTeachGrowing UpBattleBlameWarriorRepeatsFoolishnessDeceivedGood Warrior Author:Paulo Coelho