Mistake Quotes
The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human.
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.
Be willing to make bold decisions and be willing to make glorious mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, but you've got to be willing to make them first.
It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.
While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.
I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.
we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'