#stake

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#career #feel #freedom #i #i do

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

#far #mistakes #more #our #succeed

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#howard #human #john #kind #made

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#back #bad #career #early #few

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#entire world #fine #i #lack #long

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#criticize #degree #democracy #important #mistakes

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#greatest #making #mind #mistakes #talent

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#chance #create #created #dangerously #going

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#base #call #chosen #continue #drive