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“Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.”

Knows Firsts Mistake Heard Subjects Committed Combination Artificial Principal Legislators Reformers Fatal Mistakes

Author:Josiah Warren

“There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.”

People Fall Fun Mistake Comedy Ordinary Making Mistakes

Author:Norman Wisdom

“Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.”

Mistake Drug Performances Senators Roger Performance Enhancing Drugs

Author:Jim Lehrer

“If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.”

Ifs Mistake Clean

Author:Karl Rove

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.”

Believe Long Real Reality Lasts Form Mistake Wise Terrible Shapes This Life Hinduism Mistaken Krishna Ephemeral Realness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.”

World Trying Use Attention Mistake Terrible Yoga Hinduism Transient Binding Improve Your Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.”

Reality Would Be Mistake Tvs Reality Tv Biggest Mistake Greatest Success

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.”

People Writing Hands School Bits Can Do Mistake Brain Smart Training University Finished Dirty Nonsense Engines Bats Surgery Truck Smart People Assembling Brain Surgery Finished School

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

Source: Oh, the Things I Know!

“Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.”

Inspirational Mistake Steps Ladders Step Up Climbing The Ladder

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and the cultivation of compassion, and the realization that the extension of love to ourselves and others is the glue that holds the universe together. Forgiveness...is not a set of behaviors, but an attitude.”

“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.”

People Ifs Soul Ends Whole Grows Process Growth Mistake Forgiving Guilt Wounds Blanket Crippled

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.”

Way Made Ends Play Happens Process Mistake Computer Down And Musical Take Time Dead Ends

Author:Joe Mantello

“I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.”

I Can Mistake Catholic Raised Guilty

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.”

People Needs Made Ideas Moments Mistake Company Smart Investors Unworthy Smart People Very Smart

Author:Michael Moritz

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

“Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.”

Said Would Be Mistake Peyton

Author:Dorothy Malone

“Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.”

Mistake

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.”

People Way Years Firsts Mistake Valuable Grades

Author:Tom Verlaine

“I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.”

Realizing Mistake Machines Making Mistakes

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.”

Thinking Knows Can Do Mistake Leader Steps Worst Guts Reverse Worst Things Step Up

Author:Jeff Zucker

“The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.”

Should Would Be Mistake Cutting Economic Taxes Income Recovery Fragile Annuals Tax Cuts Raising Taxes Economic Recovery

Author:Mark Zandi

“There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.”

Made Two Real Past House Mistake Institutions Blame Decades Finance Plenty Giants Bubbles Soar Housing Macs Mae Craters House Prices Housing Bubble

Author:Mark Zandi

“The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.”

Ifs Mistake Stupid Population Finished Operations Insurgency Stupid Mistake

Author:Meles Zenawi

“The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.”

Humans Bigs Race Mistake Human Race Admirable Big Mistake

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”

Firsts Political Politics Business Mistake

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.”

Way Giving Use Past Spiritual Spirit Turns Mistake Essence Treats Angry Symbols Our Past Negation Connotation Wholesale

Author:John Cowper Powys

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

Thinking Men Certain Leadership Mistake Goodness Great Men Virtuous

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life. All that I am. All that I will become will be written through my thoughts and my actions. I've conditioned my mind. Trained my body. Sacrificed my soul. There will be obstacles. Doubters. Mistakes. But nothing comes to those who wait. Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”

Giving Mind Believe Soul Body Today Action Waiting Mistake Written Giving Up Refuse Obstacles My Soul Champion My Thoughts Another Day Doubters Those Who Wait

Author:Kai Greene

“An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.”

Littles Shows Mistake Nuance Acoustics

Author:Chris Cornell

“It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.”

Evil Mistake Easier All Time Rectify Easier Times

Book:The writings of George Washington

Source: The writings of George Washington

“But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.”

Force Mistake Graves True Friend True Friendship Trust Yourself

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.”

Ifs Mistake Drama Great Mistakes

Book:The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

Source: The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

“Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.”

People Mistake Angry Sorry

Author:Katherine Paterson

“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

People Thinking Years Long Made Bigs Lasts Term Interesting Mistake Company Too Much Bases Excited Long Term Native Big Things Mobile Introspective Apps Betting Biggest Mistake Androids Ios

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.”

War Mistake Generations Committed Not Sure Younger Generation

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.”

Ifs Mean War Wanted Mistake Military Iraq Fighter Navy Only Time Marine Isis Shackles Mariners Maritime Navy Seal

Author:Marcus Luttrell

“If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.”

Ifs Mistake Same Mistakes Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Rick Warren

“The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.”

Persons Mistake Doing Nothing

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.”

Perfect Mistake Growing Up Growing Making Mistakes Robots Not Perfect I Make Mistakes I'm Not Perfect

Author:Justin Bieber

“I've made some mistakes before.”

Made Mistake

Author:Jenn Suhr

“Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.”

May Important Hard Done Stuff Mistake Taught Regret Technique Yield No Regrets Academia Have No Regrets

Author:Charlie Munger

“There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.”

People Way Facts Life Is Common Mistake Tricks Handle Psychological Broke Denial Adequate

Author:Charlie Munger

“God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.”

Names Christ Mistake Bears Hinges

Book:Once in a Lifetime: Seizing Today's Opportunities for World Harvest

Source: Once in a Lifetime: Seizing Today's Opportunities for World Harvest

“The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense.”

Wells Made Sometimes Moving Fighting Mistake Cases Heard Movement Understood Extremes Opponents Nonsense Interpretation

Author:Kenwa Mabuni

“Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.”

Long Mistake Bed Late

Author:Aaron McGruder

“Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.”

Thinking Action Results Mistake

Author:Orrin Woodward

“I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.”

Mean Mistake Fans Calling Yankees Yankee Fans

Author:Curt Schilling

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