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«The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence»
«The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.»
«The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.»
Author: Cullen Hightower | About: Mistakes
«The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction»
Author: Freya Stark | About: Mistakes | Keywords: fallacies, inaction, ominous, static
«The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.»
Author: John Powell | About: Learning, Mistakes
«The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.»
Author: Kimon Nicolaides | About: Mistakes
«The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.»
Author: Meister Eckhart (Theologian, Writer) | About: Mistakes | Keywords: cost, inaction, mistake, price
«The mistakes are all waiting to be made.»
«The mistakes of the learned man are like a shipwreck which wrecks many others with it»
Author: Arabian Proverb | About: Mistakes | Keywords: shipwreck, wrecks
«The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Doctors, Mistakes | Keywords: habitually, innumerable

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