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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes Quotes
On mistakes made, owned, and left behind.
This collection focuses on mistakes as part of learning - practicing a new piece and inevitably getting parts of it wrong along the way. Related reading: Better.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
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The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
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I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
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OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
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- Nov 07, 2020