Quotes about mistake
mistake feelings century
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. Pat Conroy
mistake men
Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women. Julia Quinn
mistake growth able
I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that. LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
mistake thinking animal
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake. Neko Case
mistake bother ifs
You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones. Neil Young
mistake journey land
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a little of them as he went. Rachel Joyce
mistake journey accepting
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.
mistake believe past
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot. R. Lee Ermey
mistake thinking past
I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires. Niall Ferguson
mistake thinking natural
So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes. Nia Long
mistake ambition sloth
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. Niccolo Machiavelli
mistake ambition greatness
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
mistake men wish
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
mistake mean thinking
There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake. Newt Gingrich
mistake thinking self
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. Nhat Hanh
mistake night attachment
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.
mistake party thinking
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake. Noam Chomsky
mistake war winter
It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."
mistake tired race
You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over. Joey Logano
mistake chance realizing
The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve. Joey Harrington
mistake thinking people
If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault. Joe Strummer
mistake play musical
But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm. Joe Mantello
mistake eye trying
Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and don't at least occasionally court disaster, you are not trying. Time to hang up the camera. Joe McNally
mistake fall boys
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately. Joe Meno
mistake air sea
False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect. Joe Brooks
mistake eye men
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. Jodi Picoult
mistake people done
The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.
mistake loneliness ordinary-days
I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.
mistake want same-mistakes
I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.
mistake long-ago starting-over
if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
mistake eye path
You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
mistake perfect way
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
mistake cancer years
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die. John Green