“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.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesDoneFactsLawUnitedRoomsMistakeUnited StatesOur LivesRiskWorstDrugTenLimitsFirst TimeSentencesSpeedHarmCriminalsMilesSmokingPrivacyMaking MistakesSinnerServingMarijuanaOffenseWorst ThingsLiving RoomUnheardFreewaysSpeed LimitsPeople Make Mistakes Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.” ThinkingEndsGrowthRoomsMistakeIncreaseBottomScalesWages Author:Jared Bernstein
“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
“There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.” MovingRoomsMistakeLessonsImprovementMoving ForwardMy MistakesAlways Room For ImprovementRoom For Improvement Author:Jillian Michaels
“What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.” PeopleWantGivingMightCommunityRoomsMistakeAttitudeCompanyExperimentsSan Francisco Author:Ed Lee
“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” FeelsScienceRoomsMistakeCompanyScientistDrawingDukesShabby Author:W. H. Auden
“When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.” WorldWritingRealHomeChoicesRoomsMistakeConnectionsScriptsPerformingBad Choices Author:Woody Allen
“I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesGrowsRoomsMistakePlansEvolveInitialsBiggest Mistake Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.” IfsMadeRoomsMistakeFoodTaughtFineSlavePreparedIllGuestsDishesChefMade A MistakeDiningDining Rooms Author:Jeff Smith
“I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.” WayWantFeelsSometimesHappensRoomsMistakePossibilitySceneBe YouMistakes Happen Author:Steve Buscemi