Quotes about mistake
mistake desire prejudice
And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus. Yevgeny Zamyatin
mistake want
I don't want to make the wrong mistake. Yogi Berra
mistake thinking office
I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it? Winona Ryder
mistake safety path
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety. Winston Churchill
mistake dwelling people
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.
mistake military should
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
mistake corporations language
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. William Zinsser
mistake party thinking
I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are. William S. Burroughs
mistake political conflict
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
mistake reading character
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain. Virginia Woolf
mistake simple people
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. Vincent D'Onofrio
mistake taken men
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him. Woody Hayes
mistake people voting
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it. Woodrow Wilson
mistake eye men
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.
mistake moving looks
If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible. Woody Allen
mistake annie-hall taught
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
mistake simple heuristics
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.
mistake today same-mistakes
I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.
mistake doctors subjects
When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject.
mistake heaven chess
Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.
mistake experience world
Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience. William Shawcross
mistake people same-mistakes
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes. William Shatner
mistake fool doe
Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes. William J. Clinton
mistake tired made
Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.
mistake mean thinking
I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.
mistake profound long
I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.
mistake president knows
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
mistake commitment years
On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.
mistake self trying
I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.
mistake making-mistakes encores
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
mistake glasses giving
On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.
mistake ideas honor
Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog. Will Cuppy
mistake making-mistakes purpose
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.