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Quotes About Mistake

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Then I thought, a sex change, she says, a sexual reassignment surgery [...] It was just the biggest mistake I could make. The biggest challenge I could give myself. She says, You have to jump into disaster with both feet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Im Nachhinein betrachtet habe ich denselben strategischen Fehler wie Charles Manson begangen. Ich hätte aufhören sollen, solange ich noch bloß eine stinknormale Tiersex- und Drogensüchtige war, aber nein, ich musste meinen Status zu einer potentiell messerschwingenden Psychopathin steigern
~ Chuck Palahniuk
DoÄŸumunuz, hayat?n?z boyunca düzeltmeye çal??aca??n?z bir hatad?r.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Peter se Misty hrabal hned v první dávce antikoncep?ních pilulek. Dal jí místo nich skoÃ…â"¢icové bonbony. Druhou dávku jednoduÅ¡e spláchl do záchoda. Ty jsi je spláchl do záchoda. Omylem, jak jsi tvrdil.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
~ Cicero
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~ Claire Cross
One of the most common versions of this mistake that high-potential young professionals make is believing that investments in life can be sequenced.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
we biased ourselves toward resources over the processes. It is what I described in the previous chapter as something parents do, and it's an easy mistake to make.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences. With
~ Clifford D. Simak
If you reach a crossroads and your destination is to the left and by mistake you turn right, the further you travel along the wrong road the further you will move away from your destination. It is not easy to turn back, to change your mind. Sometimes, you have to in order to survive.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Women had always existed: they had lived, a species to themselves, with the demons. But they had wanted playmates: and together they had made men. What an error, what a cataclysmic miscalculation.
~ Clive Barker
Sucker. The mistake was to believe he'd become someone else. That the circumstances that shaped him had been otherwise, or that to outrun those circumstances was as easy as moving to a better building or learning to speak right. Hard stop on the t. He knew where he stood now, had always known, even if he'd gotten confused; there was the matter of redress.
~ Colson Whitehead
divided Europe. Abel looked back on it all and wondered where he had made his mistake. Was it when he agreed to take the job from Saeed? Was it when he pushed the assassins and threatened to hunt them down? At the time, it seemed like his only option, but looking back on it now, it had been a foolish and emotionally inspired move. He had no idea who they were, and they knew far too much about him. It was clear now what they had decided. He had threatened
~ Vince Flynn
they were clearly in the wrong, it was Al Rudin they paraded out in
~ Vince Flynn
It was a great mistake to have come. He should have stayed at home and read his book, thought Peter Walsh; should have gone to a music hall; he should have stayed at home, for he knew no one.
~ Virginia Woolf
All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it.
~ W. C. Fields
This is a trap many companies fall into. Lacking a holistic understanding of strategy
~ W. Chan Kim
A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.
~ lanier jaron ii