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Letter "M" » Mistakes
«It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Emotion,
Mistakes,
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
accords, comfortable, course, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, most especially, selfish
«It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Children,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
desire to know, discrimination, excite, falsehoods
«In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
| About:
Mistakes,
Work
| Keywords:
asset, examination, forgivable, most-valuable, righteousness, self-examination, stand fast
«If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.»
«If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.»
«If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.»
Author: John W. Holt, Jr.
| About:
Competition,
Learning,
Mistakes,
Risk-taking,
Winning
| Keywords:
competition, competitions, faster, risks
«If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.»
Author: Mary Pickford
(Actress)
| About:
Failure,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
chance, falling, Falling Down, fresh, fresher, freshest, fresh start, staying
«Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them»
«It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.»
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