Quotes about mist
mistake taken responsibility
That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life. Burt Reynolds
mistake thinking people
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. Bryant H. McGill
mistake progress literature
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
mistake careers get-better
There's a point in everyone's career where they're not going to be playing as well as they should be. You just have to keep you confidence and not hang your head and realize that you're going to figure it out and that you're going to get better and that you're going to learn. Learn from all your mistakes. Carson Palmer
mistake successful thinking
If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself. Carson Kressley
mistake coffins noses
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead. Carson McCullers
mistake cat making-mistakes
Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice. Carl Van Vechten
mistake thinking evil
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. Alan Dershowitz
mistake thinking law
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
mistake failure important
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes-it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. Alain Ducasse
mistake degrees imagine
The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake. Alain de Botton
mistake might made
I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake. Al Davis
mistake should-have want
Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to! Al Franken
mistake thinking doors
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve? Al Gore
mistake important global-warming
[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.
mistake tunnels historical
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose. Charles Kimball
mistake way fame
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way. Charles Churchill
mistake thinking trying
As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake. Channing Tatum
mistake imperfect humans
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes! Brenda Jackson
mistake different made
I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly. Brandy Norwood
mistake hero despair
Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble. Bradley Whitford
mistake parent choices
No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices. Brad Pitt
mistake complacency biggest-mistake
The biggest mistake to me is complacency. Bonnie Hammer
mistake school california
That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea. Bonnie Jo Campbell
mistake interesting looks
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. Barry Levinson
mistress would-be facts
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon. Barry Goldwater
mistake thinking ambitious
I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen. Arto Lindsay
mistake desire immortality
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake Arthur Schopenhauer
mistake path revelry
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
mistake mean progress
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
mistake simple men
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
mistake next taught
Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money. Bruce Kovner
mistake thinking land
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. Bruce Babbitt