Common Mistakes Sayings

#1. When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."

Dave Barry

#2. The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

Emmett Shear

#3. The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.

Bobbi Brown

#4. One of the most common mistakes for an entry-level job interview is to take the position: 'What is this job going to do for me?' You should be saying 'Here's what I can do and here's what I want to do to help you.'

Norah O'Donnell

#5. One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Linda Dillow

#6. One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.

Max Weiss

#7. Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.

James C. Dobson

#8. if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

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#10. 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

#11. A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

Michel Patini

#12. The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

Charles Dickens

#13. The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Mistakes makes a man wise, lies makes him common.

Ishan

#15. In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Dick Schaap

#17. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

#18. It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

Edward Steichen

#19. The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.

John Medina

#20. The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

Peter Drucker

#21. I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins.

Rumi

#23. There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#24. National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

Al Franken

#25. There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Victor Hugo

#26. The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.

Joe Meno

#27. You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

Chris Corrigan

#28. I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Emma Goldman

#29. A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

Edward Abbey

#30. It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture.

Tanay Pant

#31. Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

Hunter Hayes

#32. The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

Warren Buffett

#33. Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Allegra Goodman

#34. Heaven Has No Favorites

Erich Maria Remarque