Mistake Quotes

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

Never get too hung up on mistakes.

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

A second-class is a first-class mistake.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.

Have the courage to make a mistake.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.

The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.