Quotes about mistake
mistake cutting people
We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that. Richelle Mead
mistake heart judging
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it to set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thyself on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.... Yet be sure thou judge by a true touchstone, and mistake not the Scripture description of a saint, that thou neither acquit nor condemn thyself by mistake. Richard Baxter
mistake live-in-the-moment trying
Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes. Renny Harlin
mistake writing years
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years. Richard Marshall
mistake believe thinking
I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them. Richard Madden
mistake people drones
How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that. Richard Engel
mistake passionate debate
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. Richard Dreyfuss
mistake careers people
At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. Renee Fleming
mistake enemy gains
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. Thomas Paine
mistake annoyed abuse
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you... And as to the curs which will bark and yelp - you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead - I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness. Thomas Huxley
mistake opinion conclusion
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. Thomas Huxley
mistake people making-mistakes
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. Thomas Huxley
mistake lapses may
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... Thomas Browne
mistake choices easier
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. Timothy Geithner
mistake years two
Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat. Timothy Leary
mistake believe thinking
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred. Thomas Schelling
mistake heart opportunity
Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours. Thomas S. Monson
mistake novices firsts
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. Thomas S. Monson
mistake school past
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results. Thomas Sowell
mistake circles people
The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people. Thomas Sowell
mistake believe government
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered. Thomas Sowell
mistake decision vision
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. Thomas Sowell
mistake weapons nuclear
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. Robert McNamara
mistake thinking nfl
The greatest decisions I've made in my life are by instinct. I remember when I hired Bill I had a lot of people telling me it was a mistake. But he and I had established a rapport in '96 when he coached the secondary. You need a coach that understands economics, that understands the impact of the salary cap and how to make those difficult decisions that allow you to sustain success over the long term. I don't think there's anyone better than Bill at doing that. Robert Kraft
mistake people criticism
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. Robert Kennedy
mistake masters worst
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all. Robert Greene
mistake flower mean
Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom. Robert Greene
mistake doubt honor
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. Robert Greene
mistake self-esteem trying
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. Robert Greene
mistake mean mastery
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. Robert Greene
mistake perfect nothing-is-perfect
I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that. Robert Barry
mistake years want
Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service Richard M. Nixon
mistake people loyal
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. Richard Russo