Quotes about mistake
mistake men expectations
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Dan Savage
mistake men
Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.
mistake editors perfect
I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect. Dan Rather
mistake men should-have
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'. Dan Quayle
mistake tycoons serious
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.
mistake learning made
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. Cynthia Weil
mistake legacy impossible
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender. Cynthia Ozick
mistake ideas gossip
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
mistake reality interesting
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Cyril Connolly
mistake matter good-work
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
mistake sleep night
I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes. Compay Segundo
mistake mean boys
I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people. Daphne Guinness
mistake people perfect
Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans. Daniela Bobadilla
mistake believe years
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197 Daniel Libeskind
mistake
There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
mistake lessons firsts
There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder. Dan Millman
mistake mean responsibility
It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.
mistake heaven one-day
The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys. Corrie Ten Boom
mistake choices firsts
I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices. Common
mistake moving pride
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. Colum McCann
mistake way television
It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way. Conan O'Brien
mistake night years
In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'
mistake fall unique
Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.
mistake thinking people
The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. Colin Quinn
mistake garden society
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. Alfred Austin
mistake safety actors
I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such a thing as a mistake. You're working with good actors, that thing that starts as a mistake becomes actually the life of what is going to follow in the scene. I find that it is fantastic, and for me it is easier than for the actors. Alfonso Cuaron
mistake persistence swim
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! Alfred Adler
mistake swim way
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
mistake believe patriotic
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them. Andrew Jackson
mistake writing people
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. Anthony Bourdain
mistake lying moving
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
mistake giving feelings
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. Andy Rooney
mistake lessons valuable
One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing. Ann Richards