#stake

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#dawn #mistaken #sunset

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#conceive #either #essence #i #i think

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#god #important #mistake #very

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

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#mistake #misunderstanding

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger. ↗

— Jeff Zucker

#i #i think #know #leader #linger

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#ascertain #begin #direction #here #iran

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. ↗

— Eric Church

#becomes #career #i #make #mistake

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#affects #better #better person #enough #handle