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  • Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.

  • Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

    Stress   Self   People  
  • Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

    Wish   Would Be   Littles  
  • Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day-- and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true-- repays him many fold for all the others.

  • I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.

    Use   Fuel   Failing  
    "Tara Lipinski​: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success​​, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

    Wise   Gains   Mishaps  
  • Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

    Mistake   Parent   May  
    Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.20, Zondervan
  • The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

    Islands   Two   Events  
    "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.
  • For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

    Love   Spring   Men  
    "The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: With Twenty-five of His Sermons".
  • For example, when someone does something really, really good one time but has a little mishap later, people will still say, "Ah, that person is not like that. He's a good person. Don't you know what he did last time?" It will become like that. Once you have achieved perfection, the rest will be "free". After that, you can do whatever you want so in order to reach my 100 potential, I have to have a resilient attitude.

    Attitude   Order   People  
    Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com
  • It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.

    Night   Needs   Dinner  
    Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
  • You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  • It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.

    Memories   Age   Strange  
    Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”
  • Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.

    Life   Men   Hands  
    LUIGI CORNARO (1915). “The Art of LIVING LONG”
  • Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds.

    Children   Aka   Hair  
    N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.294, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

    Tasks   Mishaps  
    "Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.
  • We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

    Brother   Men   Community  
  • That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.

    Fire   Mishaps   Results  
    George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.145
  • It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.

    Fun   Surprise   Mishaps  
  • The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

    Struggle   Class   People  
    Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
  • Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

    Way   Craziness   Mishaps  
    Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.7, Ivy Books
  • And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.

    William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.599, Humanities-Ebooks
  • Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

    Past   Ifs And   Worry  
  • A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

    Clothes   Vices   Mishaps  
  • A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

  • Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

    James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2
  • Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

  • I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

    Safety   Flying   Way  
  • My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

    Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.112, A&C Black
  • Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.

    Lapses   Notes   Mishaps  
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