Quotes with mistake

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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • John Wooden Never mistake activity for achievement.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never mistake motion for action.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Nobody made ??a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Biz Stone Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • H. L. Wayland Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
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  • Bobby Orr So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
    Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Kenneth Wilfred Baker Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
    Kenneth Wilfred Baker
    British politician (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bode Miller Some people say I make mistakes, I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Superior knowledge is a mistake; that which rules the world is superior ignorance.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • George Herbert Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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