#stake

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#football #less #make #makes #mistakes

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#approve #benevolent #characters #decent #heart

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. ↗

— Walter Martin

#church #committed #credibility #great #great minds

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#bar #because #began #business #i

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake. ↗

— David Mixner

#because #being #democratic #i #i am

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #groups #mistakes #right-and-wrong #imagination

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#been #career #i #long #long career

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#being #learn #make #mistake #most

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#army #believing #control #could #haven

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#final #germany #individuals #names #stake