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“You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Mistake Blocked Good Words Writing Words

Book:Foul Matter

Source: Foul Matter

“I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.”

Thinking Want Should Children Has Beens Sometimes Mistake Childhood Goes On

Book:Stormy Petrel

Source: Stormy Petrel

“You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.”

Thinking Mistake Right Now Happenings Enlightenment Primaries

Author:Adyashanti

“I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.”

Thinking Knows Important Country Guy Causes Cities Mistake Standing Our Country Hey Mayors Baltimore

Author:Rand Paul

“Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Doe Made Important Games Mistake Good Things Hey Bother Scare Screwed Up Same Mistakes One Mistake

Author:Garth Brooks

“When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.”

Thinking Ideas Night Certain Song Mistake Audience Reactions

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.”

“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.”

Thinking Trying Years Firsts Important Different Bigs Would Be Lasts Given Fun Mistake Happened Groups Team Keys Messages Compare Last Year Terrific Big Mistake

Author:Tony Bennett

“One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.”

People Thinking Want Persons Next Common Mistake Listening Conversation

Author:Max Weiss

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

Thinking Men Long Change Hours Mistake Half Remains

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.”

Thinking Mistake My Mistakes Just Live

Author:Marjorie Benton Cooke

“It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Country Humor Would Be Beautiful Political Mistake Determination Urges Helpful Political Humor Anwr

Author:George W. Bush

“To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.”

Thinking Writing Real Would Be Mistake Worry Balance Personal Life Unreal Work Life Balance Life Balance Work And Life Balance Disarray

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.”

Thinking Made I Can Mistake Records Made A Mistake

Author:Candy Crowley

“Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.”

Thinking Two Use Language Mistake Republican Criticize Great Mistakes

Author:Rand Paul

“I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Years Looks Guy Girl Mistake Talking Okay Average Bars Chiefs Idiot Old Man Handsome Emperor Detroit Pretty Girl Successors

Author:Emo Philips

“Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.”

Thinking Should Country Mistake Authority Our Country Vulnerable Usa

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free.”

Thinking World Believe I Can Mistake Economic Regret Don't Believe Plenty Learned From Mistakes

Author:Tony Robbins

“Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.”

Thinking Trying Sometimes Moments Decision Mistake Making Mistakes Spurs I Make Mistakes Spur Of The Moment

Author:David Rubenstein

“My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.”

Thinking Made Lying Memories Mistake Generous Family And Friends

Author:Elizabeth Loftus

“I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Process Mistake Know How Journey Masters

Author:Demetri Martin

“I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Said I Can Play Jobs Moving Mistake Succeed Sorry I'm Sorry Keep Moving

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Helping Perfect Mistake Promise Giving Up Compromise These Days Not Giving Up Not Perfect

Author:Simon Le Bon

“I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why theyre making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.”

People Thinking World Feels Trying Mistake Watches Ghost Demon Making Mistakes Flaws

Author:Jason Katims

“I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Mistake Growing Up Growing Continuing Shells Living My Life My Mistakes Learn From My Mistakes Continuing To Learn

Author:Johnny Manziel

“My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.”

Thinking Want Trying Helping Mistake Procrastinating Trying To Change Biggest Mistake

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.”

Thinking Way Want Said Might Lasts Passion Mistake Careers Regret Concepts Last Time My Passion Elusive Career Success

Author:K'naan

“The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.”

“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.”

Thinking Needs Trying Children Real Problem Bigs Causes Numbers Mistake Study Figures Keys Disease Evidence Wide Range Autism Vaccines Big Problems Polio

Author:David Oshinsky

“I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.”

Thinking Knows Way Kids Opportunity Parent Perfect Mistake Struggle Gratitude Advantage Helpful Messed Up Expressing Gratitude Taking Advantage Squandering

Author:Emily Yoffe

“I love what I do, and I always make sure to tell my fans I'm not perfect, so don't think I am. I make mistakes. I'm human, and we all are. But I try to be the best I can be, and that's all I really can do.”

Thinking Trying Humans I Can Can Do Perfect Mistake Fans Being The Best Making Mistakes Not Perfect I Make Mistakes I'm Not Perfect

Author:Selena Gomez

“If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stuff Understanding Mistake Terrible Eternity Clouds Bother Knowledge And Understanding

Author:Stephen Fry

“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Light Suffering Mistake Alive Creating Insight Making Mistakes Concentration Impermanence

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Has Beens Law Mistake Cases First Time Treats Moved Injustice Details Hearing Permit Benches Petitions

Author:William Howard Taft

“It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Firsts Mistake Vision Knowing Objects Sight Blind Squares Angle Hinder Blind Man

Book:The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

Source: The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life

“It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.”

Thinking Long Running Mistake Mankind Conscience Appeals Long Runs Breeding

Book:The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

“I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes.”

Thinking Want Giving Facts Individual Process Can Do Mistake Cutting Computer Making Mistakes Lasers Illustrators Scalpels Handmade

Author:Ben Eine

“I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. If you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. As well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.”

“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.”

Thinking Men Different States Problem Seems Able Differences Mistake College He Man Brother My Brother Sameness

Author:Zadie Smith

“Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.”

People Thinking Mistake Situation Successful Focus Rewards Successful People Fear Of Failure

Author:John C. Maxwell

“It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual”

Thinking Mistake Creative Activity Unusual

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”

People Thinking World Mean Light Mistake Company Birth Regard Merit Consideration Endeavor

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.”

Thinking Way Use Mistake Knowing Please Tools Electricity Often Is

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.”

Thinking Success Faith Mistake Teacher Relationship Share Failure Treats Valuable Making Mistakes Great Teacher Learning Experience Harvey

Author:Steve Harvey

“Want to know the secret behind The Secret? The Law of Attraction will not bring you abundance and prosperity for just thinking pleasant, positive thoughts. It is no cosmic mistake that the word "attraction" has the word "action" in it. Abundance is, in fact, the result of creative thinking and a lot of action. Much action, much prosperity, in other words. What are you waiting for?”

“I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Mistake Doors Gun Institutions Unity Various Lions Establishment Solidarity Mice Loaded Loaded Gun

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.”

Thinking Mean Stills Important Real Ends Play Mistake Issues Emotional Comfort Drama Substitutes Means To An End Interpersonal

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.”

Thinking Mind Light Faces Suffering Mistake Sadness Habit Creatures Harmony Rational Offering Deities Gloomy Sanctity Loveliness Habits Of Mind Sad Face

Author:Sydney, Lady Morgan

“As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.”

Thinking Play Actors Mistake Storyteller

Author:John Hawkes

“People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Persons Made Past Mistake I've Learned Better Person My Mistakes Belle

Author:Albert Belle