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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson
Memory
Mistake
People
Clear
Clear Conscience
Lot
Short
Short Memory
Conscience
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.
Elif Batuman
Mistake
Yourself
Conservative
Better
Doubt
Thinking
Side
Possibly
More
Colorful
Writer
Terrible
Err
When In Doubt
Less
Thing
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
You
Mistake
Experience
Recognize
Marvelous
Marvelous Thing
Make
Enables
Again
Thing
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
Man
Happy
Mistake
Rich
Everyone
Teeth
Toothache
About
Makes
Sound
Same
Rich Man
Whose
Thinks
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
George Gurdjieff
Man
Mistake
Long
Half
Think
Changing
Remains
Seldom
Never
He
Hour
Greatest
Always
Continually
Same
Even
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins
Me
You
Mistake
Made
Somebody
Never
Person
Achieved
Much
Show
Who
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
John Frusciante
Best
You
Moving Forward
Mistake
Keep Moving Forward
Made
Doubt
Keep Moving
Way
Say
Find
Constantly
Best Way
Never
Make
Move
Move Forward
Anything
Moving
Forward
Keep
Things
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Lydia M. Child
Spiritual
Fight
Mistake
Overcome
Evil
Physical
Wrong
Noble
Supposing
Means
Wickedness
Right
Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.
Mark Gatiss
Time
Youth
Mistake
Older
Enjoy
Had
Always
Child
Just
Wanted
Realised
While
Even
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela
Mistake
Politicians
Unlike
Some
Admit
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan
Service
Fight
Mistake
Rand
Would
Would-Be
Collectivism
About
Had
Individualism
Involved
Make
Make No Mistake
Got
Versus
Person
Public
Reason
Large
Public Service
Credit
Thinker
Here
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Peter Drucker
Mistake
Dangerous
Matter
Decision
Assume
Only
Most
Make
Executives
Making
Discussions
Senior
Decision-Making
Decisions
I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
Philippe Petit
Life
You
Mistake
People
Personality
Think
Unlimited
Would
Perceive
Something
Magnificent
How
Making
Limiting
Front
Them
Moment
Describe
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp
Forgiveness
Mistake
Unacceptable
Rarely
Always
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
Funny
Thoughts
Man
Mistake
Words
Wine
Disadvantages
Makes
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
Samuel L. Jackson
Mistake
People
Overcome
Stronger
Rehab
Ourselves
Characters
About
Through
Come
Knowing
Make
How
Understood
Where
Creating
Means
Whole
Things
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
Mistake
Made
Never
He
Discovery
Who
You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you'd be a damn liar.
Stephen A. Smith
Love
Me
You
Love Me
Mistake
Hate
Liar
Damn
Criticize
Make
Calling
Because
Just
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
Theodore C. Sorensen
Mistake
Made
Party
Think
Ought
Liberalism
Harry
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Running
Running Away
John
Reach
Robert
Democratic
Robert Kennedy
Democratic Party
Democrats
Truman
Roosevelt
Away
Kennedy
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
Dreams
Mistake
Coward
Hero
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
He
Like
Always
Real
Being
Honest
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama
Mistake
I Am
Old
Values
First
Baby
Punished
About
Morals
Daughters
First Of All
Make
Got
Am
Years
Going
Want
Them
Teach
Two
Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.
Andrea Bocelli
Music
Mistake
Passion
Losing
Too Much
Focus
Nothing
Too
Sight
Significance
Would
Would-Be
Give
Had
Blindness
Much
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
Barbara Jordan
Me
Mistake
People
Decision
Interpretation
Alexander
Finally
Out
Somehow
Through
Court
Felt
Court Decision
Hamilton
George
Been
Years
George Washington
Left
Amendment
Just
Process
Many
Included
Washington
Going back to coach in Green Bay was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I was approached by the organization, and it turned out to be an enormous mistake. I was extremely disappointed. I disappointed the Packers and their fans.
Bart Starr
Life
Mistake
Fans
Organization
Made
My Life
Enormous
Back
Extremely
Out
Bay
Disappointed
Green
Green Bay
Going
Biggest
Biggest Mistake
Packers
Turned
Coach
Ever
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
Bob Iger
You
Respect
Mistake
Innovation
Past
Way
Allow
Revere
Tradition
Get
Your
Need
It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
You
Mistake
Fall
Say
Make
How
How Many Times
Up
Times
Whether
Stand
Stand Up
Standing
Standing Up
Many
Keep
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