Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.

Rick Riordan

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

Richard Branson

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

Richard Branson

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

Richard Branson

We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.

Richard Branson

Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

Richard Branson

So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.

Swami Vivekananda

The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

Swami Vivekananda

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

Tim Harford

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time

Stephen Fry

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

Sri Chinmoy

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

Sri Aurobindo

What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.

Sophia Loren

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Ruud Gullit

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

Ross Perot

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

Ron Kaufman

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

Roger von Oech

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

Sam Snead

That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

Sam Sheppard

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Thomas Malory

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Ray Lewis

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

Ray Kroc

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

Rau'Shee Warren

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Rashida Jones

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

Randy Couture

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit.

Randy Alcorn

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Robin G. Collingwood

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

Robin Hobb

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

Robin Hobb

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Robert Winston

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Robert Ringer

One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.