A Quote by Tim O'Reilly

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

Tim O'Reilly

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Being Being Wrong Early Too Wrong

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Tim O'Reilly
Irish - Businessman
Born: June 6, 1954

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

David Augsburger

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Thomas Szasz

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

Robert A. Heinlein

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

Edward de Bono

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Paulo Coelho

The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

Harry Browne

A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

Tavi Gevinson

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

Thomas Sowell

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

Ken Robinson

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Seth Godin

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

Melissa de la Cruz

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

Seth Klarman

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Paul Arden

It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.