#stakes

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#lot #make #making #money #movie

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#acknowledge #any #behind #bring #commit

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. ↗

— George Muller

#counsel #declarations #did #fellow-men #god

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was. ↗

— Bill Murray

#any #city #collaboration #create #everything

People love to hear the mistakes you've made. ↗

— Holly Near

#love #made #mistakes #people #you

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. ↗

— Holly Near

#guts #huge #intelligence #keep #leap

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this. ↗

— Holly Near

#i #learn #make #mistakes #opportunity

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#become #difference #how #laugh #learn

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat. ↗

— Gary Neville

#beat #collection #disappointments #dismiss #how