Mistake Quotes

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

Don't dwell on your mistakes. Set achievable goals: a confident line, effective use of values, interesting shapes, exciting texture.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake.

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?'

I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

You just can't be scared to do things that you think are mistakes.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.