#stake

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#action #administration #again #been #corrective

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#give #larger #national #outcome #people

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#burned #defended #full #history #ideas

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age. ↗

— Plato

#age

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#mistakes #you

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#assume #commands #conclusion #defend #dictates

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone. ↗

— Sal Mineo

#i #mistaken #never #pat

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