Mistake Quotes
I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.
Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.
I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.
Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.
Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.
One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
I don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes.
The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.
I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.
People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.
Make no mistake, the Republican establishment has been relying on the media to be a premier agent in destroying Trump. And they can't. Ergo, there's panic.
Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.
In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.
The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes.
First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.
If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'
It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.
Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.
As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.
