Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miles Davis

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

Mila Kunis

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

Milan Kundera

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Miguel Cabrera

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

Miguel Cabrera

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

Marcel Proust

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

Marcel Proust

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Marcel Proust

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

Jose Saramago

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Jose Saramago

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Jorma Kaukonen

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

Jose Bergamin

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Jorge Posada

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

Jorge Luis Borges

I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

Joni Eareckson Tada

It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.

Jonathan Tropper

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Jonathan Swift

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Kevin Spacey

Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

Kevin Brockmeier

I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.

Kelley Armstrong

Chloe? It's me." After a pause, he added, "Derek," like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little part of me that perked up like an eager puppy saying, "It's him. Quick! Go see what he wants." God, how had I been so blind? It seemed so obvious now.

Kelley Armstrong

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

Katie Aselton

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms, than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie. That being said, I'm certainly open to moving into that world.

Kathy Reichs

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Joe Torre

We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.