Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

Albert Einstein

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

We didn't start well. Morenci didn't make the little mistakes they needed to make in order for us to have a chance.

Aberjhani

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Aaron Ross

One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.

Aaron McGruder

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Aaron Rodgers

When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.

A. J. P. Taylor

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

A. J. Jacobs

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

Aamir Khan

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

A. Whitney Brown

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

A. Whitney Brown

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

A. A. Milne

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

A. A. Milne

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

Agatha Christie

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Agatha Christie

One must make one's own mistakes

Agatha Christie

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

Adrienne Bailon

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

Adrienne Bailon

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Adrienne Bailon

The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that's the biggest mistake men make on the first date. Just get to know me. Be my friend. Just kick it with me as if I was hanging with a homeboy. It shouldn't be this awkward situation. It should be that we're there, having a great time.

Adrian Peterson

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

We play everyone, and sometimes that throws the team's rhythm off. A lot of the time, it's the same mistake being made by different people.

Only he who does nothing makes a mistake

I was risking a lot and made a lot of mistakes because the visibility was terrible.

One mistake was waiting too long to evacuate. There were serious problems.

Jane Birkin

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Jane Austen

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Jamie Oliver

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Jamie Oliver

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Jami Gertz

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

James Wolcott

One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds.

Jason Blum

I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.