Quotes about mistake
mistake lying self
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears. George Eliot
mistake men animal
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
mistake animal thinking
We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them. Gary Paulsen
mistake jewels america
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. Gary Oldman
mistake peaceful madmen
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
mistake thinking goal
The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!
mistake men hands
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness. George Horace Lorimer
mistake eggs rotten
When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
mistake thinking media
I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore. Chris Hardwick
mistake simple differences
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity. Christopher Alexander
mistake people ifs
If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes. Francis Ford Coppola
mistake
Nature compensates for its mistakes. Francine Pascal
mistake men errors
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Francis Bacon
mistake race europe
One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe. Fran Lebowitz
mistake winning competition
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. George Wald
mistake errors glory
To err is nature, to rectify error is glory. George Washington
mistake evil easier
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
mistake responsibility judging
History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility. George W. Bush
mistake self cynical
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. George Santayana
mistake government banking
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government. George Osborne
mistake past order
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. George Orwell
mistake party reality
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.
mistake past secret
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
mistake causes ruined
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. Fyodor Dostoevsky
mistake punishment suffering
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
mistake making-mistakes doe
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
mistake men errors
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
mistake men artist
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man. Friedrich Nietzsche
mistake mastery performances
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
mistake laughing
I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. Jim Carrey
mistake dangerous humans
We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit. Jessie J
mistake boxing made
I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it. Jack Johnson
mistake writing talking
Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing. Jack Kerouac