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Quotes About Mistake

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Like all big mistakes, mine started with a goat.
~ Wendy Mass
IT WAS ME. I'M STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! IT WAS MY FAULT THEY STOPPED GIVING TOURS.
~ Wendy Mass
it was, in fact, possible to accidentally accelerate in reverse.
~ Wendy Wax
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
~ Wernher von Braun
There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake — falling in love is. If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it. Oh my goodness, so would all the fun. So, what are you gonna do about it.
~ When Ladies Meet
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
~ Wietse Venema
Hakikati güvenli?e ye? tutan bir ya?am biçimi içinde elde edilen büyük ba?ar? ve bulgunun yazg?s? ?udur: Senin taraf?ndan büyük bir açgözlülükle yalan?p yutulmak ve sonra gene senin taraf?ndan d??k? olarak at?lmak. Büyük hakikati de?il de küçücük yanl??? ya?am?n?n yol göstericisi olarak gördün.
~ Wilhelm Reich
When we substitute an easier question for the one we should be answering, errors are bound to occur.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable, and if the jump saves much time and effort. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high, and there is no time to collect more information. These are the circumstances in which intuitive errors are probable, which may be prevented by a deliberate intervention of System 2.
~ Daniel Kahneman
for most people, the cause of a mistake matters. The
~ Daniel Kahneman
They keep making the same mistake: predicting rare events from weak evidence. When the evidence is weak, one should stick with the base rates.
~ Daniel Kahneman
How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.
~ Daniel Keyes
NEVER start sketching screens and then try to reverse-engineer a CM from them. This is a rookie mistake that can get you ejected from the Jedi academy.
~ Daniel Rosenberg
What's done cannot be undone. —Macbeth (1606), act 5, scene 1
~ Daniel Silva
hamartia in his character. The fatal flaw
~ Daniel Silva
But the worst mistake is not to figure out some way to end up in a better place after having made a mistake. We call that 'writing a great last chapter.
~ Danny Meyer
He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same.
~ Danzy Senna
Sbaglio colossale come chi scrive nel risvolto che la poesia consiste nel pensare nella lingua...
~ Dario Bellezza
a bold act may prove to be a blunder. Nonetheless, it is a laudable error, not to be regarded on the same footing as others. Happy is the army where ill-timed boldness occurs frequently; it is a luxuriant weed, but indicates richness in the soil.
~ Dave Grossman
It is hard to work your day job and spend a ton of hours on your business, but it is harder to make a mistake and lose your home in foreclosure because you jumped before the boat was close enough to the dock.
~ Dave Ramsey
Stupid is not illegal.
~ Dave Ramsey
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.
~ David Ben Gurion
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake.
~ James C. Collins