- Me
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, we're goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a mistake to limit ourselves to a certain audience when we could reach everybody.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secrecy is the underlying mistake that makes every innovation go wrong in Michael Crichton novels and films! If AI happens in the open, then errors and flaws may be discovered in time... perhaps by other, wary AIs!
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren't problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They'd get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020