Quotes with mistake

Quotes 121 till 140 of 169.

  • Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Milan Kundera The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Brian De Palma The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Nelson Boswell The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
    Nelson Boswell
    American author
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  • Benjamin Franklin The first mistake in public business is going into it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lester Bangs The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Walter Bagehot The greatest mistake is the trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
    Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ellen Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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  • Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Claude D. Pepper The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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