Quotes about mistake
mistake libertarian
The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am. Joe Lhota
mistake giving waiting
I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start. Francois Hollande
mistake trying acknowledge
We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up. Frank Luntz
mistake school years
I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made. Maggie Q
mistake thinking creating
I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films. Maggie Grace
mistake book creativity
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. Maggie Stiefvater
mistake starting-over betrayed
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. Macklemore
mistake voice impossible
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Madame de Stael
mistake long
As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. Haruki Murakami
mistake judging stranger
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
mistake mean love-is
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.
mistake way egomaniacs
I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw. Harlan Ellison
mistake starting-out making-money
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Greer Garson
mistake golf littles
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one. Grantland Rice
mistake moving way
The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future. Greg Behrendt
mistake errors entrepreneur
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. Gordon Moore
mistake leader doe
One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.
mistake space hollywood
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked. Gore Verbinski
mistake advice getting-lost
Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake. Gordon Lightfoot
mistake ideas nine
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. Gilbert K. Chesterton
mistake errors important
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
mistake fads noble
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
mistake practice design
The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes. John Masefield
mistake self tears
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. John Mayer
mistake cost assuming
The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.
mistake thinking risk
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. John Maynard Keynes
mistake book historical
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.
mistake long good-things
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.
mistake believe thinking
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
mistake thinking sides
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. John Major
mistake failure discovery
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
mistake men too-much
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing. John Lubbock
mistake enemy wicked
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.