Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.

Enoch Powell

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

Emmett Shear

The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

Emmett Shear

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

James Corden

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

James Corden

I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it.'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.

James Altucher

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

James Altucher

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

James Altucher

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

James Allen

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

James Anthony Froude

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Jake Roberts

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering.

Jake Gyllenhaal

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

Jacques Pepin

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Henry Rollins

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Henry B. Eyring

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

Henry A. Kissinger

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

Henry A. Kissinger

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Hector Hugh Munro

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

Henry David Thoreau

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

Patricia Highsmith

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

Plautus

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake. [Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

Plato

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Plato

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Plato

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Plato

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

Philip Slater

It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable democratic society needs a ceiling and a floor with regard to the distribution of wealth and assets.

Paula Danziger

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.

Paula Abdul

So time over time what will change the world, no one knows? The only promise is a day to live, to give and share with one another.
 See the wisdom from mistakes in our past; the promise of a new day.