#stake

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#attribute #contest #difficult #discover #enough

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#i think #mistake #perfectionist #think #which

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

#hampshire #instance #miss #mistake #new

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job. ↗

— James Sinegal

#educated #gamble #job #make #mistake

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

#making #mistake #past #predict #try

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#helps #i #lot #make #making

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#always #been #composition #contra #i