Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

American Educator

Dan Scanlon

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

American Artist

Tom Freston

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

American Businessman

Lee Isaac Chung

Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won't gain the approval of urban curators, so we assimilate ourselves to other, more sophisticated voices.

American Director

Kerry Washington

When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.

American Actress

John Updike

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

American Novelist

Aaron Rodgers

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

American Athlete

Susan L. Taylor

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

American Editor

Chad Gilbert

Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.

American Musician

Victor J. Glover

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

Use 'misstep' when an error has significant negative consequences or impacts.

Consequential Error

Often used metaphorically to describe errors in judgment, strategy, or action in various contexts.

Figurative Use

Carries a negative connotation, implying that the action was a clear departure from what was correct or ideal.

Negative Connotation

Refers specifically to a literal, physical stumble or incorrect step which can lead to injury or a fall.

Physical Error

Suggests the need for caution in physical movement to avoid missteps, especially in a treacherous or tricky path.

Caution Advised

Used when encountering an unforeseen obstacle that causes one to trip or stumble.

Unexpected Obstacle

 and if we walked through the time line, I think it would be pretty apparent the decisions that they made kept the coronavirus from really exploding across the entire country and really limited it to one province and mostly one city. But there were also many, many missteps, and those are things that I think the world can also learn from,

What the world can learn...

 pulled himself up and scurried upwards. He was free climbing without ropes or a harness, one misstep meant death. But up he went, and when he reached the peak, he swayed and leapt across the gap of space onto a branch of the target tree and into a world never seen before. His buddy Marwood followed him up,

What's hidden among the...

 where you would expect to see trucks from behind. Trucks on the side is not supposed to happen on a highway, and so when the AI saw this truck, it looks like the AI recognized it as most likely to be a road sign and therefore, safe to drive underneath. Here's an AI misstep from a different field.

The danger of AI is...

 Arguments like that show that you are ambitious, you know what you want, but you also care for others. So many of our negotiation missteps, they don't actually come from disagreements but misunderstanding the other person. So it's important to listen well, to ask why and why not?

3 steps to getting what...

 and I generally took precautions to minimize the risk that sex carries. Now, I say generally, because I wasn't always safe. It only takes a single misstep before we're flat on the ground, and my misstep is pretty obvious. I had unprotected sex, and I didn't think much of it.

Our treatment of HIV has...

 usually among people who have different expertise and different points of view. Innovations rarely get created full-blown. As many of you know, they're the result, usually, of trial and error. Lots of false starts, missteps and mistakes.

Linda Hill: How to...

 It's also important to know that your self-worth is not determined by your net worth. This is something that we can do better about. You celebrate your wins. And when you make that misstep, no judgment, no shame. Just get back at it.

6 ways to improve your...

 are pretty worn but most importantly everything blow the ground levels red-hot under their mats putting the finishing touches on the perimeter kid he'll use the roasts his wild turkey but it's a delicate process any missteps

A Steam Pit Celebration...

 a correctly shaped portrayal of sub-Saharan Africa. Beginning in the 15th century, European cartographers began to expand the scope of their world maps as their explorers traveled the world— but not without missteps.

The biggest mistakes in...

 It's really awful. It's a misstep on the city's behalf, to say the least. But what puts the Milwaukee flag over the top, almost to the point of self-parody,

Misstep