Gary W. Keller
Author, Educator
"Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time."
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Screw Ups
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Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!"
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business."
Tim Ferriss
Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
"Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up"
Kristin Hannah
Author
"I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones."
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"Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better."
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"The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up."
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"Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours."
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"The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up."
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"Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road."
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"If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much."
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"Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything."
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"I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film."
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"Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please."
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"With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us."
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"Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works."
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"See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good."
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