“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.” IfsThinkingDifferentSometimesHardChanceResultsMistakeIf I CouldMaking MistakesMentalityGood ChanceDifferent Mentality Author:Alain Prost
“I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.” ThinkingTryingDifferentWould BeGirlMistakeMaking MistakesGilmore Girls Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldDifferentPlayMistakeKnow HowToughVulnerable Author:Ellen Malcolm
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.” IfsWayInspirationalDifferentEndsCertainRealizingAbilityMistakePracticeStruggleWalkingBuiltErrorsEdgesIceHillsDifferent WaysMaking MistakesParadoxCoveredSmarterSlow DownStumblingSlipping Author:Daniel Coyle
“I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.” WayArtDifferentMy OwnAttentionMistakeStudyAchieveDirectorsPaidCamerasShootingDifferent WaysArt HistoryStudying Art Author:Tommy Lee Jones
“Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.” IfsWayGivingTryingWellsLooksStillsDifferentNextMistakeAirWeekSecuritySceneSeriesDifferent WaysFlexibilityNext Week Author:Clint Eastwood
“Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.” IfsThinkingWayShouldTryingHas BeensMadeDifferentTodayPastRememberChoicesMistakeRegretShould HaveShould Have BeenBack In TimeGo Back In TimeDifferent ChoicesPast Regrets Author:John S. Hall
“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.” IfsMenTwoDifferentAsksMistakeTalkingFiveHe ManLogicSevenPhilosopherPlusNinety Author:Thomas Friedman
“You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'” IfsWantTryingKindDifferentHardEnoughMovingMistakeStudyPersonalityGet UpEmployeeMaking MistakesI Want YouKeep MovingResilientSame MistakesTrying HardMaking The Same Mistakes Author:Trip Hawkins
“Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.” PeopleThinkingWayMindKindIdeasDifferentMomentsBornMistakePathDiscoveryOriginalsDareRight WayNo FearFear Of FailureOpen MindWrong WayHave No FearOriginal IdeasNew DiscoveriesKeep An Open MindDare To Be DifferentWrong Thinking Author:James Dyson
“It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.” TryingMayLittlesSaidDifferentGamesWinningRoomsMistakePlayerTeamFootballJokesFundamentalsCoachesGet BetterNflBreakfastFewerRepetitionNever ChangeDrillsLockersLocker Room Author:Barry Switzer
“I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.” WayHas BeensBookDifferentSometimesHelpingProblemWantedOrderViewsPayAttentionMistakeMethodPoint Of ViewDifferent WaysEditorsUnderestimate Author:Margaret Atwood
“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.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsImportantDifferentBigsWould BeLastsGivenFunMistakeHappenedGroupsTeamKeysMessagesCompareLast YearTerrificBig Mistake Author:Tony Bennett
“It's a mistake to just go make a movie where the whole thing is talking down to the kids like, "Ok, we gotta bring the IQ of this movie down because it's a kids movie" You don't have to do that, kids can laugh and parents can laugh at different parts and that's fun, and you see that with all of the great kids movies.” DifferentWholeKidsFunParentMistakeTalkingLaughingKids MovieTalking Down Author:Jack Black
“One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.” KnowsMenPersonsImportantDifferentMomentsFeelingsRealityHappensMistakeHe ManIllusionMachinesRegardProfoundMoodPermanentRememberedConsidering Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. But you know the pillar of honor is strong in a relationship when you can look at the other person and say, “You are really different from me. It makes me sad when I see you making that choice. But I love you. I value you, I believe in you, and I am here for you in this relationship.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLooksPersonsDifferentValuesChoicesStrongI BelieveDifferencesMistakeLove YouHonorI Believe InBelieve In YouPillarsI Believe In You Author:Danny Silk
“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.” ThinkingMenDifferentStatesProblemSeemsAbleDifferencesMistakeCollegeHe ManBrotherMy BrotherSameness Author:Zadie Smith
“Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.” PersonsMadeDifferentEarthMistakeSourceLessonsAvoiding Author:Valentina
“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.” BelieveDifferentI BelieveMistakeSituationIndustryActivitySkillsLimitsProjectsUnderstoodInvestingBackgroundsSpheresMy MistakesBackground Knowledge Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.” MenDifferentPayMistakePeriodsBiggerSame Mistakes Book:Written on water: a novel Source: Written on water: a novel
“These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.” PeopleThinkingMadeDifferentEndsSometimesYoungGuyJusticeMistakeStupidNormalCriminalsTendenciesGrantedTeenagerMade A MistakeJustice SystemCriminal JusticeStupid ThingsCriminal Justice System Author:Barack Obama
“Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.” PeopleWayLooksMadeDifferentFactsUseBigsMistakeNewsOrganizationVersusMade A MistakeIphoneAppsIpadsTablets Author:Vivian Schiller
“Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.” ThinkingDifferentCoursesEasyResultsNumbersMistakeFeetTestsWeightNotionComplicatedScalesPairsLengthRulersAbstractionDefining Author:Walter Lippmann
“We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One.” IfsThinkingLoveMeanDifferentBigsWould BeChanceMistakeSurvivalFormulasOne LoveBig MistakeFormula One Author:Richard Branson
“You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.” MadeDifferentEndsMistakeTrialsThe End Of The DayDifferent ThingsTribulationTrials And TribulationsAnd At The End Of The DayMistakes You've Made Author:Brock Lesnar
“You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just don't work out because it's a really difficult process. And sometimes there's a certain person underlining process. But I've had an opportunity to work on all different types of films and I have had a lot of opportunities to stretch myself in different ways and now is the time where I get to try and figure out out the roles that I can really play well and play them well.” WayTryingWellsPersonsMadeI CanDifferentSometimesPlayFilmCertainOpportunityProcessDifficultMistakeRolesFiguresTypeWork OutDifferent WaysMaking Mistakes Author:Josh Hartnett
“I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.” ThinkingDifferentWould BeMistakeComedyHugeTypeSakeGenre Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.” PeopleArtDifferentFormMistakeExampleArt IsSpotsUpside DownSophomoreAwesome Things Author:Jessica Hische
“Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.” ThinkingNeedsStillsI CanDifferentSometimesMovingTurnsNextOpportunityMistakeFiveWeekMinutesPeriodsPerformancesDefeatFive MinutesDifferent TimesTime Periods Author:Filo Tiatia
“So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake.” WorldWayIdeasDifferentCountryBitsMistakeFashionThis WorldAccidentsConstructionImageryAvenuesDifferent Countries Author:Christopher Bailey
“I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.” WayDifferentEyeMotherMistakeBrotherDifferent WaysMessed UpOlder Brother Author:Kellan Lutz
“I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.” KnowsMenWantMadeDifferentYoungBornWealthMistakeFameYoung Man Author:Barack Obama
“Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!” PeopleWorldBelieveHumansDifferentEnergyMistakeWatchesFateImagineAmountAgreeExceptionDifferent WorldsErr Is Human Author:Veronique Vienne
“Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.” PeopleMadeDifferentAsksMistakeForgivingMessMaking MistakesMade A MistakeAsking For ForgivenessPeople Make MistakesI've Made Mistakes Author:Michele Bachmann
“I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsFeelsTryingHumansKindDoeDifferentSometimesSeemsNextFoundProcessExistenceMistakeWonderWeekHolyCinemaDifferent WaysPlotDestinationControlledOngoingWay Of ThinkingHuman ExistenceNext WeekHoly Grail Author:Christoffer Boe
“Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.” IfsMenMeanDifferentCertainMistakeStandardsAll ThingsUltimateRelativeUltimate TruthStandards Set Author:Zhuangzi
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.” PeopleYearsDifferentCountryHappensPastBeliefChanceMistakeEconomyCircumstancesSittingEssenceCrisisFinancialEdgesRootedOther CountriesSmarterProvokingCliffsHere And NowSyndromesFinancial CrisisValuationPast Mistakes Author:Carmen Reinhart
“I wouldn't do anything different. Every mistake and every success made me the person I am today. And I am proud of who I am.” PersonsMadeDifferentTodayMistakeProudWho I Am Author:Dawn Marie Psaltis
“How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.” WritingMindLongHas BeensStillsBookDifferentStoriesRememberMovingMistakeClearFansSeriousEssentialsLong TimeErrorsSeriesConsistentSlipsClassroomContinuityObsessiveMy MistakesRemembers EverythingDifferent Books Author:J. K. Rowling
“I think I made some mistakes, in different areas, but it's great to be working in a show again now, many years down the track. I have worked in many other different shows in Australia and I've been able to learn from my mistakes. I'm lucky that I made those mistakes early on in Australia, and I definitely won't make them again in the States, but you've got to learn that stuff.” ThinkingYearsMadeDifferentStatesShowsAbleStuffMistakeLuckyAreasTrackAustraliaMy MistakesLearn From My Mistakes Author:Dustin Clare
“I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.” PeopleMadeDifferentMistakeBabyConstantAidsExpensiveRemindersRest Of Your LifeMistakes You've Made Author:Donald Glover