1,800 Quotes About Mistake
- Author Ivanka Trump
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Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.
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- Author James Thurber
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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- Author Jeremy Taylor
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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- Author Jim Thompson
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If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.
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- Author Joni Eareckson Tada
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It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.
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- Author Jonathan Tropper
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It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
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- Author Lewis Thomas
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Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
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- Author Lynne Truss
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No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.
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