Bad Mistake Quotes

• Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

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  Epictetus

  Mistake   Book   Thinking  

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• Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last line of defence. When a goal goes in everyone looks at you, you've got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?

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  David Seaman

  Mistake   Goal   Looks  

  2849

• I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!

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  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake   Men   Years  

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

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  Gilbert Arenas

  Mistake   People   World  

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

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  Arthur Rubinstein

  Father   Mistake   Heart  

  2651

• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

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  Gavin Bryars

  Mistake   Trying   New Work  

  1422

• At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

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  Ian Fleming

  Mistake   Play   Gambling  

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

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  Nancy Werlin

  Mistake   Nice   Thinking  

  2971

• Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.

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  Harry Reid

  Sorry   Military   War  

  1725

• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

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  Jean Plaidy

  Life   Motivational   Happiness  

  506

• Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

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  Nancy Werlin

  Mistake   Nice   Adults  

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• It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake   Writing   What Matters  

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2006). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.7, Prestwick House Inc

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• Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

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  Aristotle

  Mistake   Justice   Judging  

  386

• Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!

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  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mistake   Experts   Bad Mistake  

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• I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

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  Nat Hentoff

  Mistake   Nice   Thinking  

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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