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We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Background Cognitive Errors Event Experiences Fears Incorrectly Instant Judge Means Mental Models Often Onto Our Perceive Perception Person Project Respond Results Senses Situation Through Which

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I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.

~Ellie Kemper

Topics: According Actual Am Calls Day Embrace Enough Errors Flowers Fully Go Many Me Meals Name Our Perhaps Plan Priest Some Something Things Vegetarian Wedding Will Wrong I Am

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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Case Code Difficult Errors Going Like Only Our Predict Read Riddled Software Trying Understand Very Dna

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Destructive Errors Fatal Great Happiness Little Little Things Most People Repetition Ruined Slowly Things

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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

~Errol Morris

Topics: About Errors Examination Our Proper Route Understanding World

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The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Community Confessions Creeds Errors Having Idea Keep Obvious Okay Point Somebody Spirit Stupid Through Touch Traditions Us Will Works

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Before Being Error Errors Essential Establish Gets He Heretic Himself His Hold Individual Many Marginal Out Point Practiced Sees Some System Truth Worn

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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

~Farley Mowat

Topics: Correct Delusion Errors God Going Good Gross Important Last Minute Misconception Our Smile Some Somewhere Species Us Will

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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Computers Copies Documents Each Emails Endlessly Errors Few Flawless Get Hundreds Make Managers Now Once Paper People Sheet Time Until Wasteful

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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

~Ferdinand Marcos

Topics: Based Chart Come Constitution Correct Course Cry Errors Experience Future Motion New Once Our Past Present Single Together Write

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