- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistake Quotes
On getting it wrong, and what came after.
This mistake quotes page ranges from a lighthearted dietary misstep to more serious reflections on management errors and misplaced priorities. See our Regret quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
They've finally comes up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
- Nov 07, 2020
Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.
- Nov 07, 2020