#mistake

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#correct #delay #fast #foul #mistakes

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#general #great #great mistakes #mistakes #pride

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#ayn #ayn rand #collectivism #credit #fight

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#american #american people #any #asked #better

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#defeat #every #laughter #listen #mistaken

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

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

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