Quotes about mistake
mistake choices pennies
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals Lev Grossman
mistake compassion intellectual
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
mistake past want
The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past. Leon Panetta
mistake planning more-time
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. Leon Trotsky
mistake matter lessons
We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters. Lauren Myracle
mistake moving believe
We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.
mistake thinking people
There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester. Lauren Oliver
mistake strange
Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.
mistake artist looks
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
mistake healthy brain
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.
mistake europe mind
The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake. Lakshmi Mittal
mistake government people
Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost. L. Neil Smith
mistake successful oddities
Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played. Paul Stanley
mistake steps ladders
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
mistake curves lessons
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve. Patsy Kensit
mistake made persons
Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships. Patti Davis
mistake character past
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy. Oscar Wilde
mistake female charming
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
mistake names giving
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
mistake men names
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
mistake doctors physicians
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor. Ina May Gaskin
mistake school drug
Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow. Ike Turner
mistake thinking people
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. Idi Amin
mistake way made
I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel. Ichiro Suzuki
mistake pieces paper
The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it. Hyman Rickover
mistake ignorance long
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
mistake stories dogma
The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake. Gloria Steinem
mistake goes-on congress
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets. Geraldine Ferraro
mistake men vices
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all. Harry S Truman
mistake ignorance causes
It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
mistake science simple
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. J. P. Morgan
mistake would-be vices
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice. J. M. Coetzee
mistake lying ninety-nine
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. J. K. Rowling