Mistake Quotes

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!

I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.