Quotes about mistake
mistake crime bigs
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. Patty Hearst
mistake people albums
The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings. Patton Oswalt
mistake giving people
My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded. Peter Greenaway
mistake men years
I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error! Peter Greenaway
mistake mean black
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong. Peter Greenaway
mistake design enemy
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs. Pericles
mistake novelty moral
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time. Percy Bysshe Shelley
mistake self-improvement youth
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Percy Bysshe Shelley
mistake worst movie-making
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. Pauline Kael
mistake anxiety judgement
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Pauline Kael
mistaken impeccable
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. Paul Valery
mistake believe errors
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error. Paul Valery
mistake gold dollars
That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake. Paul Volcker
mistake gold investing
It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high. Paul Volcker
mistake play rocks
The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll. Paul Westerberg
mistake thinking trying
I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round. Paul Wolfowitz
mistake armed-forces barack
The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast. Paul Wolfowitz
mistake thinking wells
I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes. Mel Gibson
mistake spinning-around gambling
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. Mel Brooks
mistake learning chance
Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something Mary Pickford
mistake starting-over another-chance
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose. Mary Pickford
mistake fall new-day
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford
mistake world want
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound. Mary Oliver
mistake enabling ecology
I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties. Mary Daly
mistake holiness doe
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness. Pope Benedict XVI
mistake fall democracy
It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes. Pope John Paul II
mistake school stories
In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he wants. Of course, in the movie, in the story, she makes a mistake by hiring him. But, if she doesn't, I have no story. Philippe Falardeau
mistake sheep welcome
Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them. Pope Francis
mistake sin god-love
Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins. Pope Francis
mistake neighborhood
Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. Rabindranath Tagore
mistake heart break-through
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes. Rabindranath Tagore
mistake pleasure source
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
mistake work-out people
You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected. Peter Morgan