The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents. — David Brin Copy Share Image
I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be… — John Daly Copy Share Image
If President [Barack] Obama - President [Donald] Trump shows up with a, you know, cleaver and just says, I can get rid… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. — William Feather Copy Share Image
I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of… — Idara Victor Copy Share Image
My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of… — Kemmons Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long -… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes… — Ray Lyman Wilbur Copy Share Image
I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in… — Abraham Foxman Copy Share Image
For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I… — Kenneth Lay Copy Share Image
Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must pay attention to that quiet and persistent inner voice of ours. If it's urging us to change something; we must… — Alis Cerrahyan Copy Share Image
Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling]… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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