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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.


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ERIC CHAMBERS Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
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ANDY RODDICK We made some errors, but we had some great plays and those make up for the errors.
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HERMAN EDWARDS We're competing the whole game. We're not having multiple errors in a row. We're spreading them out....
DAVE GUNN Anytime you get runners on base through walks, errors or whatever, things can happen. The bottom of ...
BRENDA STIEGER We left a lot of people on base and are still making young errors.
CONNIE WUNSCHEL Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you wi...
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EMMA MORRISON if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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PUBLILIUS SYRUS From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
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DAVID HACKETT It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance...
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BARBARA JORDAN We made errors. That's why we lost. We hit the ball a little harder.
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DAVE MCDOWELL If we continue having errors like this when we play them, I don't know what to tell you. Take the er...
PAUL KOHMAN We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our ...
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BOB CHAVEZ A column about errors will contain errors.
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YEHUDA BERG you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have...
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JENNY MEIROWSKY There were some balls that weren't errors, but I believe we should have got to them.
DANIEL LAMB Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!
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JOHN FAHEY I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. ...
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BILL EVANS If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
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JUDY SHAUBACH Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to ...
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KLAUS SCHWAB This was a tough loss. We came out strong in the first game and then had a few serving and passing e...
DEZARAE JOHNSON Errors killed us today. In our first two games we didn't have that. It was a lack of focus. We had e...
COURTNEY HARRNESS If there were errors, that could be where they occurred.
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BARRY WHITE When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
BARRY SWITZER I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l...
BARRY STERNLICHT There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
BARRY STERNLICHT