Quotes about mistake
mistake taken people
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously. Patrick Dempsey
mistake made made-a-mistake
If I have to make a tackle then I have already made a mistake. Paolo Maldini
mistake ideas mind
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case. Paramahansa Yogananda
mistake reflection men
The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.
mistake soul mud
Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.
mistake sibling doors
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. Ovid
mistake tired im-tired
I made the mistakes not because I'm tired. Oscar Pistorius
mistake opportunity real-talk
When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities P. C. Cast
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!
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.
mistake engineering essence
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others. Henry Petroski
mistake making-mistakes
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do. Henry Ford
mistake love-is giving
Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake. Helen Rowland
mistake writing decision
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult. Helen Mirren
mistake men ignorant
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. Henry Ward Beecher
mistake opportunity hands
She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. Henry James
mistake inspirational-life ambassadors
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
mistake hero prudent
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. Johann Kaspar Lavater
mistake science building
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mistake together statistics
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
mistake people wish
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
mistake half quarters
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
mistake men serious
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
mistake self rate
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
mistake age needs
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
mistake long people
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.
mistake lying
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
mistake fall men
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
mistake winning past
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. Joe Torre
mistake men made
Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any. Joe Louis