- Best
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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
- Elevating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will take every constructive criticism, make it my own, learn from my mistake, and go forward.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
- Different Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.
- Grave
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020