Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Albom

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Mike Tyson

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Mike Tyson

I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.

Mike Tyson

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

Mike Tyson

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

Neil Finn

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

Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Robert Holden

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.

Rick Santorum

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.

Rick Riordan

We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).

Taylor Caldwell

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s,

Edward Dahlberg

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

Edward de Bono

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

Holbrook Jackson

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

Jonathan Franzen

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

Jonathan Coe

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

Jon Runyan

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

Jon Voight

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Jonah Lehrer

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

Jonah Goldberg

One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

Jon Stewart

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.

Julie Delpy

I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

Lee Iacocca

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

Lee Iacocca

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

Lee Iacocca

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

Laurie Garrett

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

Larry Brilliant

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

Lara Logan

Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Thierry Henry

You learn from your mistakes.

Terry Pratchett

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.