Sentences with phrase «rather than mistakes»

Program yourself to see the achievements rather than the mistakes.

«The poll suggests that Massachusetts voters who believe one or more elected officials or agencies deserve a share of the blame see the attacks as a failure of national security intelligence rather than the mistakes of local law enforcement,» said La Raja.

You as his parent will get to see how best your child learns, as you are going to be focusing on positives rather than his mistakes.

I use the word limitations rather than mistakes, for none of the biographer's statements seems to me false.2 What I miss in the book is awareness of some intellectual advances during the century or more between the end of Darwin's career and the publication of this biography.

I am going to call this a design element rather than a mistake.

While actively managed funds are faux pas to many folks in the personal finance blogger crowd, there is a reason I've categorized this as a regret rather than a mistake.

What is more serious is the fact that Mann and others have continued to claim that this was a valid alternative analysis rather than a mistake which potentially could have invalidated much of their analysis.

Not exact matches

«That's the biggest mistake most inventors make — is they look at an idea from a passion perspective rather than analyzing it as a business opportunity.»

Another common mistake is storing your papers and your stuff wherever there's room for it rather than where it gets used.

To become a destination for innovative professionals, take a cue from some of the tech industry greats: Google, Apple and Facebook know the key to attracting the best people is creating a space where creativity is rewarded, collaboration is encouraged and mistakes are seen as learning opportunities rather than failures.

«It would be a huge mistake to take the dollars we gain from closing loopholes and put them into reducing rates for the highest income brackets, rather than into reducing the deficit.»

It even wades into parenting and schooling: praising and rewarding our children for reaching solutions rather than for their effort, Tugend writes, stigmatizes mistakes from the earliest stages of socialization.

The key to achieve greatness lies in one's ability to treat each mistake as a lesson, rather than a crushing defeat, and view failure not as a «game over» sign, but rather, as a tool on the journey to even greater heights.

Hassabis tweeted that the move was a genuine mistake, rather than a rare move:

Many organizations make the mistake of focusing a release on the fact that they are raising money rather than what they are raising money to do.

In that sense I may be a fool, but if I am, I'm offering you the chance to be wise and learn from my mistakes rather than repeating them.

You're that much better off if you can learn from the mistakes someone else has made, rather than having to make them yourself.

Rather than letting the mistake take him down, Krzanich used the situation to change the company for the better, etching out his legacy.

Create a habit of acknowledging your mistakes, rather than making excuses.

«Even if [House] is there another six or eight months, I would rather they take their time than make the mistake they made last time.»

It's far easier to alter the impact of a mistake earlier rather than later in the game.

People who take the blame, who say they are sorry and explain why they are sorry, who don't try to push any of the blame back on the other person... those are people everyone wants in their lives, because they instantly turn a mistake into a bump in the road rather than a permanent roadblock.

One of the biggest mistakes businesses make is that they focus on customer satisfaction rather than customer loyalty.

So rather than learning from our mistakes, we tend to double down and get further entrenched in our position as a defense mechanism.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

Solomon: Now comes true confessions time: Anything you can share that you would have done differently in your career - something that readers can learn from rather than repeating a mistake themselves?

Rather than one big mistake, the disaster likely was the result of numerous small decisions that caused normality to shift and that ultimately caused a fatal explosion.

Unfortunately, rather than admit a mistake, the Federal Government issued a complicated (and ultimately false) explanation why iPods and other electronic devices will not cost more.

If I'd spent more time listening, and correcting mistakes, rather than arguing and committing to them, ThoughtBasin would have been in a much stronger position.

The biggest mistakes startups make are not talking to enough prospects before diving in and not understanding the target market, which might result in focusing on multiple ideas rather than one main idea.

The formula for invention success is a mix of creativity, knowledge of development and marketing (Market - Step process), having the mindset to take risks (even small ones), willingness to learn from mistakes (rather than quitting), and the right timing in the market.

Rather than offer a referral to someone else, I thought it would be easier to provide some fatherly advice and craft the following list of 8 mistakes that entrepreneurs often make when pitching to investors.

These dudes are all risk averse and would rather throw megabucks at a ripoff that is guaranteed to make no mistake than risk a dime at a rebel.

Say, for example, rather than having a committed belief in the right to bear arms, you have identified yourself as a raging bull on some US tech stock, the fact such a bias could lead you to make mistakes when analysing fresh data on that business does not bode well for the success of your portfolio.

Level targeting corrects for the bygones problem in growth rate targeting, making up for past mistakes rather than embedding those errors in current policy.

But he is too much inclined, I think, to attribute the emergenceof a «credit deadlock» to past mistakes in banking policy - to the Central Bank not having lowered the rate sufficiently soon, or sufficiently suddenly - rather than to the inherent causes connected with the long - term rate.»

I think most entrepreneurs, rather than making a mistake in picking a niche, make a mistake in «playing at business» — getting business cards, spending tons of time on optimizing their website, etc — before they need to worry about any of that.

Many of the dumb mistakes of omission I've made have come from caring too much about exactly what a business looks like now (what it's reporting in earnings, showing in book value, etc.) rather than what I think it'll roughly look like in 5 years.

So, it's my worst mistake in terms of process rather than outcome.

I think our brain is somehow wired that way — to look for the mistakes rather than celebrate what's good.

Looking at the short term volatility rather than the long time development of stock is according to Warren Buffet one of the most common mistakes among investors on all levels.

«Our Vice Chairman, Charlie Munger, has always emphasized the study of mistakes rather than successes, both in business and other aspects of life.»

It's amazing how much people will distort their view of reality rather than face the possibility of being mistaken.

An obstetrician becomes an abortionist after a career damaging mistake saying that he has decided to end mistakes rather than make them.

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

Metaphysical error is exclusively a matter of confusion, inconsistency, or lack of definite meaning, rather than of factual mistakes» (CSPM 69).

The mistake, however, is to assume that the image is in fact the object of worship rather than a representation of the Divine who is formless.

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...!?

For while he keeps his authorial distance from the angry narrator of Lancelot, there is no mistaking Percy's basic sympathy with his Nietzschean madman who prefers war to «what this age calls love» and who had rather «die with T. J. Jackson at Chancellorsville [than] live with Johnny Carson in Burbank.»

It is re-casting an indefensible statement in such a way as to change its meaning rather than to simply admit a mistake.