Quotes by category:Mistake

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men... by Edward Young

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

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If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been... by Edwin Land

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

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Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

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The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.

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There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

Edwin Paxton Hood

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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to... by Edwin Land

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

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It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

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I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.

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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes. by El-P

We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.

If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. by Eli Siegel

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine. by Elbert Hubbard

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

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Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!

Elfriede Jelinek

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Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.

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Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

Elias Lyman Magoon

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