“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.” PeopleGivingChildrenDreamYoungChanceMistakeDepends Author:Walt Disney
“The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.” MatterMomentsMistakeAudienceDependsNo Matter WhatReactionsWrong Things Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.” MenWayLittlesPersonsDoeRealEndsMatterDoneHandsValuesIndividualStrongMistakeGoneProgressDependsIllusionBuiltWeakActivismI RealizedEndlessChainsContributionLinksReal ValuePersuadingSounder Author:Ida Tarbell
“I have had extreme ups and downs. The biggest thing I learned after I broke my wrist is to never give up. Nothing in life will ever come easy. It depends on how you deal with those obstacles and how you overcome those obstacles. If you can overcome them, you're a stronger person. If you make mistakes along the way, as long as you never make that same mistake again, you're a successful person.” IfsWayGivingPersonsLongEasyDealsMistakeSuccessfulDependsGiving UpOvercomingStrongerObstaclesExtremesBrokeMaking MistakesNever Giving UpUps & DownsWristsSame MistakesSuccessful PersonStronger Person Author:Michael Phelps
“In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.” IfsThinkingPlayHelpingBigsGuyGamesHurtMistakeStepsWorryFiveFourDependsBaseballBallsBasesBiggerUglyThrownMaking MistakesQuartersSchemesBangsOccasionalBlundersBig PictureAggressivenessOutfielders Author:Mike Scioscia
“The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.” DoneMistakeOne ThingDependsComputerMachinesBiggerCarefulBe Careful Author:Michael Bloomberg
“How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.” MenMistakeDependsPreacher Author:John Knox
“To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.” KnowsShouldMadeTwoAsksOpportunityAnswersMistakeQualityEnvironmentParticularDependsJudgmentEvidenceAvailableSpeedPredictionsIntuitiveAdequateRegularityOpportunities To Learn Author:Daniel Kahneman
“...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayIdeasSometimesMightProcessMistakeCreativeDependsCreative ProcessUnpredictableMisunderstandingBack And ForthGood Writers Author:John Cleese