Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

We never really got anything going. We made some mistakes, interceptions. But it wasn't all the quarterback. We had some routes not run correctly.

Bill Crawford

Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.

Bill Crawford

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

C. S. Lewis

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

C. S. Lewis

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Cathy Moriarty

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Cecelia Ahern

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

Carrie Underwood

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

Carl Rogers

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

Bill Bryson

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

Bethenny Frankel

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

Bette Davis

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Ashton Kutcher

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Aron Ralston

I certainly made mistakes.

Arsene Wenger

Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.

It is a mistake to treat the dropout problem as a fundamentally different kind of problem than other problems in our schools - it's a different symptom of the same disease.

Brian Roberts

I screwed up, ... I was just trying to make something happen, and I made a mistake I shouldn't have.

People make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. They were trying to work things out.

Bill Evans

Some people can make a lot of mistakes and still get a way with it because athleticism can make up for it. We're not that kind of team. We need to play within ourselves.

Bobby Knight

My mistake was I stayed there too long,

Patrick Lalime

Little mistakes at the end ... I'm not sure what happened.

I won't be as nervous (for the quarterfinals). When you're out there wrestling, you don't always know if you're making mistakes here or there.

Sandis Ozolinsh

I was trying to get there and sweep the puck away. It was an unfortunate mistake and took our momentum away.

I think he is mistaken in his optimism,

I think it would be a mistake to underestimate him.

I think this is a mistake for the town.

I think through the mistakes they've made, they understand the process a little better.

Bruce Miller

I think they made a mistake by having the rally on a work day. It would have been better to have it on a Saturday or Sunday.

Bob Hope

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

Bjork

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

Biz Stone

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.