Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Schmidt

People make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. They were trying to work things out.

Bill Evans

Some people can make a lot of mistakes and still get a way with it because athleticism can make up for it. We're not that kind of team. We need to play within ourselves.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Other than the first period, I thought we played a solid game. We snapped out of making those mistakes we made in the first period and played better during the second and third.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

Barry Ritholtz

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

B. F. Skinner

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Doug South

We never really got anything going. We made some mistakes, interceptions. But it wasn't all the quarterback. We had some routes not run correctly.

Bill Crawford

Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.

Bill Crawford

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

Andy Murray

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Alice Walker

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Edmund Hillary

I was incredibly stubborn.

Edward Gibbon

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

Tim Lappano

We're still going to be stubborn about that.

Jeff Bezos

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Jeff Bezos

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

George F. Kennan

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.