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errors hitting reason
Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose. Joe Archuleta
errors overcome routine talented
Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.
errors tendencies dangerous
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. B. H. Liddell Hart
errors doe dignity
[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error. C. S. Lewis
errors temptation needs
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
brains good hard magnitude perspective regardless
Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.
brains people slack themselves
People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush. Juliana Hatfield
brains build good inadequate might perhaps
Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can. Seth Shostak
brain changes chronic effects existing insight provides stress study triggers
Our study provides insight into how chronic stress triggers changes in the brain that are much more long-lived than the effects of existing antidepressants.
brain education found present relationship support
Our findings do not support these beliefs. In the present study, we found no relationship between brain shrinkage and education level.
brains health increases movement overall research showing using
Research is showing more and more that using movement and doing brainteasers increases the overall health of your brain.
brain five learn learning might months paths playing public three words
Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get. Sonny Rollins
brain
and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain. Becca Fitzpatrick
brain use
Me having no education. I had to use my brains. Bill Shankly
opponents way population
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. Bertrand Russell
opponents raises
It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.
opponents situation commanders
The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence. Carl von Clausewitz
opponents pressure quite rather steals team
Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.
opponents worked
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. Justin Trudeau
opponents moments historic
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Aberjhani
opponents special subtle
When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit. Kirk Ferentz
opponents
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. Andrew Young
opponents plenty shot tough waiting
Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.