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Japanese business theorist and consultant 1930Related quotes
“If you want something different, DO something different. Without change progress is impossible.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 132
“"Recognise and acknowledge your mistake, but never admit your mistake."”
Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty
Statement to one of his advisors when he realised that Cao Cao made a mistake. Source: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. An adaptation of the Sanguo Zhi new 2010.
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Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
Jean Kerr (1922–2003) Irish-American author and playwright
"I was a Sand Crab" http://books.google.com/books?id=teAQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+make+mistakes+I'll+be+the+second+to+admit+it%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage <br class="br">The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
John Derbyshire (1945) writer
Source: Derb Quotes https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/derb-quotes-john-derbyshire/, National Review, November 20, 2003.
“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
Variant: Progress is a man´s ability to comlicate simplicity.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Illustrated London News (1924)
Context: The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
“Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love