#stake

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#admit #another #bold #common #common sense

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#could #did #greater #little #made

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.' ↗

— Lance Burton

#always #call #feel #hello #hillbilly

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #cases #common #her #jurisdiction

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#billions #comfort #continue #dollars #give

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake. ↗

— Miguel Cabrera

#go #make #mistake #nervous #you

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today. ↗

— Roger Federer

#after #believing #bigger #bit #decided

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#again #different #different way #his #man

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#learn #look #make #mistakes #works

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#ever #except #good #great #great mistakes