#stake

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#dangerous #decision #decision making #decisions #discussions

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#because #best #best part #bottle #catching

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing. ↗

— Fred Durst

#anyway #artists #because #doing #grateful

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#mistake #misunderstanding

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#bound #change #each #face #happen

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#good #got #had #hot #i

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? ↗

— Jon Voight

#civil war #country #creating #now #obama

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes. ↗

— David Fincher

#characters #i #learn #like #mistakes

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#also #because #bed #discouraged #everything

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#between #body #communication #country #dwarfish