Mistake Quotes
We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality.
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander
I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.
I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them
If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.