Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Leadership is influence.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

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.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Nobody’s indispensable.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.