#stake

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

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

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

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#best #circumstances #failure #may #mistake

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#admit #frankly #got #i #made

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#discovery #failure #finding #learn #made

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. ↗

— Liz Smith

#greatest #little #mistakes #nothing #only

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal