Quotes about mistake
mistake years miracle
Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers. Libba Bray
mistake careers thank-god
Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did. Leslie Mann
mistake cat thinking
Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes! Lester Bowie
mistake people political
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. Lester B. Pearson
mistake struggle errors
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Friedrich Schiller
mistake government divine-justice
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. Franklin D. Roosevelt
mistake heart may
We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
mistake choices results
Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen. Jojo Moyes
mistake fall angel
My whole career, I've had an issue with always kind of being an underdog and making a big mistake when it counts and falling and having to climb back up. One moment everything will be peachy and everyone will be saying the nicest things about me and loving me, and the next minute I'm the worst, I'm evil, all these things. It's like a fallen angel. Johnny Weir
mistake failure use
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Johnny Cash
mistake bad-ass serenity
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. Luis Barragan
mistake unique
Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake! Ludwig van Beethoven
mistake inspiration different
We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes
mistake philosophical looks
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein
mistake people missing
You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant. James Corden
mistake grateful mean
I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it.'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.
mistake past perfect
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect. James Altucher
mistake successful firsts
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
mistake thinking people
Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.
mistake thinking yesterday
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today. James Allen
mistake men issues
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought. James Anthony Froude
mistake kids men
Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man. Jake Roberts
mistake thinking proud
I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not. Jake Gyllenhaal
mistake space giving
Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering.
mistake actors way
In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.
mistake thinking america
Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business. Jacques Pepin
mistake honest made
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. Henry Rollins
mistake funny-marriage joy
Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion Henry B. Eyring
mistake believe arms
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy. Henry A. Kissinger
mistake believe hands
It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.
mistake book pages
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
mistaken
I like being mistaken for someone useful. Helen Humphreys
mistake female infallible
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes. Hector Hugh Munro