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“It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].”

Thinking Mind Firsts Long Made Important Matter Mistake Events Students Draws Add Finals Physics Objectives Arrows Involving Analyzing Photons

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Real Courses Asks Simple Mistake Principles Subjects Ignorance Ass Explanation Candidates Subtle Now And Then Counting Ambiguous Conducting Thesis Nodding

Author:Robertson Davies

“now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes”

Thinking Looks Littles Country Hard Reality Lines Mistake Break Our Country Fists Profile Clinic

Author:Ani DiFranco

“In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.”

“I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.”

Thinking Wells Mistake

Author:Mel Gibson

“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.”

Thinking Country Bigs Causes Sides Sin Mistake One Thing Pride Corners Commit Big Mistake Sin Of Pride

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.”

Thinking Made Reality Felt Mistake Skins Made A Mistake

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.”

“Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind War States Facts Would Be Choices Fall United Mistake United States Danger Terrible Criminals Terrorist Standpoint Fall Back Mind Set Terrorist Attacks Wrong Choices

Author:Dick Cheney

“Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.”

Ifs Thinking Men Wells Mistake Son Damn Making Mistakes Bows I Make Mistakes

Book:Legend

Source: Legend

“We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.”

Thinking Looks Mistake Worthy Worthy Of Love

Author:Meryl Streep

“I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.”

People Thinking Way Want Needs Believe Persons Bigs I Believe Mistake Proud Want To Be Happy Big Mistake Need Money

Author:Akio Morita

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”

Thinking Inspirational Facts Reality Challenges Inspiring Mistake Learning Errors Response Obstacles African American Encouraging Facts Of Life Great Mistakes

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.”

Thinking Ideas Age Wealth Mistake Cases Economy Computer Advantage Fund Files Shrinking Hedge Fund File Sharing

Author:Jaron Lanier

“I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" it's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their fucking world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.”

Thinking World Stories Mistake This World Masters Cooking Creator Boring Working It Dump Dungeons Biggest Mistake

Author:Rick Remender

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”

Thinking Men Humans Made Sometimes Facts Race Mistake Ten Members Eight Human Race Pigs Tails Made A Mistake Crooked Hog Swine

Book:The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Trying Has Beens Made Different Today Past Remember Choices Mistake Regret Should Have Should Have Been Back In Time Go Back In Time Different Choices Past Regrets

Author:John S. Hall

“Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.”

Ifs Thinking Should Light Stars Sides Dark Walks Mistake Watches Darkness Sun Moon Evidence Metaphor Tonight Hopeless Bleak Slim Wasted Life Sun Set

Author:John S. Hall

“In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.”

Thinking Stories Bits Term Interesting Mistake Style Tools Attempting

Author:Kelly Link

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.”

Thinking Courses Mistake Fiction Research Historical Everyday Details Heavy Granted Historical Fiction Everyday Life

Author:Sara Sheridan

“If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.”

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Author:J. I. Packer

“If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Feelings Bigs Happens Next Left Hurt Mistake Steps Middle Mad Frustrating Next Steps

Author:Carlos Zambrano

“They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.”

Thinking Looks Made Two Mistake Gone Scene Instance Policemen Investigating

Author:Nicolas Roeg

“I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.”

Thinking Trying Littles Faces Actors Mistake Findings Niche

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.”

People Thinking Trying Years Book Christian Reading Jesus Mistake Support Meetings Jew Educated Making Mistakes Testament New Testament Scholarship

Author:David Plotz

“If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.”

Ifs Thinking Important Next Games Sides Deals Mistake Shots Crosses Massive Concentrating

Author:Shay Given

“The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.”

Thinking Moments Happens Mistake Forever Investors

Author:John C. Bogle

“I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.”

Thinking Long Mistake Path Right Path Learn From Your Mistakes

Author:Kim Kardashian

“I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.”

Thinking Wells Important Mistake Defeat Take Time Defeated Same Mistakes

Author:Rain

“The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.”

Thinking Way Should Made Use Mistake Technology Music Is Reflection Advantage Studios

Author:Corey Taylor

“I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Made Important Community Mistake Successful Horror Admiration What's Important

Author:Jason Blum

“I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people.”

People Thinking Way Writing Looks Matter Mistake Teach Taught Reader Genius Skills Program Very Good Technique Helpful Gifted Rookies

Author:Michael Chabon

“Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Mistake Hero Like Me Behaviour

Author:Gore Vidal

“Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?”

Thinking Men Way Lasts Life Is Space Mistake Break Tree Cry Proud Bird Sight Fishes Wounds One Way Posts Branches Desperate Swim Fence Things Change Another Way Holding On Proud Man Fence Post

Author:Tim Finn

“I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.”

“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.”

“I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.”

Thinking Mistake Risk Fashion

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Thinking Trying Long Use Certain Pleasure Mistake Achieve Comfort Profound Entertainment Happy Lasting Cheer Being Happy Deep Thought True Happiness Cheer Up Long Lasting Proxy

Author:Simon Pegg

“The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.”

Thinking Firsts Girl Natural Mistake Periods Gay Lips Innocence Rude Giddy Girlhood Insolence

Book:Wit and Wisdom

Source: Wit and Wisdom

“Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Enough Belief Mistake Opinion Public Opinion Adaptability Wishful Thinking Hens

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.”

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Book:Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate

Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate

“You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.”

Thinking Heart Sometimes Enough Eye Mistake Broken Sock

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.”

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Book:Off Center: Essays

Source: Off Center: Essays

“Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”

Thinking Sometimes Body Mistake Construction Afterlife Resurrection

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.”

Thinking Life Eye Mistake Missing Aim Details Making Mistakes Modest Small Details

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.”

People Ifs Thinking Guy Mistake Nfl Laid Back

Author:Peyton Manning

“The greatest decisions I've made in my life are by instinct. I remember when I hired Bill I had a lot of people telling me it was a mistake. But he and I had established a rapport in '96 when he coached the secondary. You need a coach that understands economics, that understands the impact of the salary cap and how to make those difficult decisions that allow you to sustain success over the long term. I don't think there's anyone better than Bill at doing that.”

“... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Trying Certain Mistake Knowing Serious Cost Destructive Avoiding Facets

Author:Anne Bancroft