Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Bernstein

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

Janine Turner

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janet Suzman

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Janet Frame

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Miley Cyrus

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

I don't think we made any mistakes. But from a public relations perspective, it wasn't properly handled.

I don't think you can make a mistake in places like L.A.. The prices are ungodly, but they're only going to go up.

Michael Morse

I find it unfair that I am being punished three different times for making the mistake of taking steroids once in 2003,

Francisco Liriano

I feel like I made a mistake and I'll pay for it. I'm responsible for what I did. I'm really sorry for what happened. I made a big mistake.

I don't have an answer. Little mistakes give up big plays. You have to finish. You have to have more points on the scoreboard than the other team.

I don't have an answer. Little mistakes give up big plays.

I don't know what kind of a world it would be, or how many people would be in that world, if it were one mistake and you're done,

Paris Hilton

I do not want to make that mistake.

Ben Folds

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

Carl Sandburg

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Candy Crowley

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

Carine Roitfeld

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

C. S. Lewis

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

Miley Cyrus

The Moment You Stop Making Mistakes Is The Moment You Stop Learning

Miley Cyrus

It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd."

Calvin Coolidge

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Burton Richter

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Burt Reynolds

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.

Bryant H. McGill

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

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Carson Palmer

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 Kressley

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 McCullers

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.

Carl Van Vechten

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

Alan Dershowitz

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

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.

Alain Ducasse

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 de Botton

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.