Fatal Mistakes Quotes

• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?

  Cornelia Funke

  Song, Mistake, Flower

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.285, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, Thinking, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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• Los errores forman parte del ser humano. Valora tus errores como lo que son: preciosas lecciones de vida que sólo se aprenden por las malas. A menos que sea un error fatal, del que, al menos, otros puedan aprender.

  Al Franken

  Inspiración, Motivación, Éxito

  Al Franken (2002). "¡Oh, las cosas que sé!", p.14, Penguin

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• We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Mistake, Struggle

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• [In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Mistake, Science, Two

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• And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Mistake, Trying, Bigger

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• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  Pauline Kael

  Mistake, Anxiety, Judgement

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Aquellos que han escuchado o leído algo de mí sobre el tema, saben que uno de los principales puntos en los que insisto es que la formación de sociedades o cualquier otra combinación artificial ES el primer, más grande y más fatal error que jamás hayan cometido los legisladores y los reformadores.

  Josiah Warren

  Mistake, Firsts, Combination

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• El error fatal es esperar a que las circunstancias de la vida sean las adecuadas para empezar. Simplemente empieza con tu corazón, mira profundamente en él y confía en lo que sientes. Practica el saber y sabrás.

  Hugh Prather

  Error, Corazón, Práctica

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• The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.

  Yaser Arafat

  Military, Mistake, Suicidal

  Fuente: www.nybooks.com

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• Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

  Ron Reagan

  Religious, Dad, Mistake

  Eulogy For Father Ronald Reagan, delivered 14 June 2004, California

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• It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Careers, Goal

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Feb 04, 2016

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• We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

  Stephen Fry

  Military, War, Mistake

  Entrevista con Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. 22 de septiembre de 2004.

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• Ignorar las diferencias es el error más fatal en política o en la industria o en la vida internacional: toda diferencia que se integra en una concepción más amplia alimenta y enriquece a la sociedad; toda diferencia que se ignora alimenta a la sociedad y acaba por corromperla.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Mistake, Differences, Ignored

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.40, Penn State Press

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• El error fatal que cometemos es buscar un paraíso que perdure... Esta obsesión por lo que perdura nos hace pasar por alto muchos paraísos fugaces.

  Andreï Makine

  Error, Fugaz, Paraíso

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• Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Mistake, Blood

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• Lo que concisamente se denomina calentamiento global, es un error fatal de la actualidad.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Mistake, Global Warming, Present Time

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• This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

  Steve Perry

  Cheating, Mistake, Mean

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• For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Mistake, Men

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• This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mistake, Good Man, Sometimes

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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• It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.

  Sherman Skolnick

  Mistake, Hero, Patriotic

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