Quotes about mistake
mistake loneliness long
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at. Tao Lin
mistake lying struggle
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. Swami Vivekananda
mistake body spirit
The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.
mistake school reality
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. Sophia Loren
mistake decision personality
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. Tony Robbins
mistake making-mistakes made
I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn. Tony Benn
mistake making-mistakes politics
Making mistakes is how you learn.
mistake moving thinking
As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the way we think. As that revolution goes on around us, it is going to pose political challenges of which immigration is one very obvious one, which are going to be extremely difficult to deal with. But it's like free trade. You know, in the end, if we go protectionist, we'll make a mistake. Tony Blair
mistake believe free-will
Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well. Sinead O'Connor
mistake ruins use
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then? Simone Elkeles
mistake mean why-not
I brought a condom," I tell her when I slide her panties down. We're both hot and sweaty, and I can't resist hr anymore. "I did, too," she whispers against my neck. "But we might not be able to use it." "Why not?" I expect her to tell em this was all a mistake, that she really didn't mean to get me all hot and bothered just to tell me I'm not worthy enough to take her virginity, but it's the truth. She clears her throat. "It all d-d-depends on whether or not you're allergic to l-l-latex.
mistake firsts pedestal
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place. Simone de Beauvoir
mistake devil world
God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes. Simon Le Bon
mistake compass made
You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made. Simon Kinberg
mistake mean humility
What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults and mistakes, to separate myself from them as if they were not, and as if I were someone other than myself. This kind of self-annihilati on is only a worse illusion, it is a pretended humility which, by saying “I am nothing” I mean in effect “I wish I were not what I am. Thomas Merton
mistake ambition together
But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am a mistake.
mistake destiny race
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.
mistake gold world
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper. Thomas Carlyle
mistake errors inquiry
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
mistake fall men
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.
mistake imagine imagine-that
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
mistake thinking long
Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly... Tony Hsieh
mistake made worst
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life. Tony Dorsett
mistake
How can we get the most from every mistake we make? Tony Buzan
mistake wife scary
The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead! Tony Evans
mistake appreciate matter
You have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability. Tommy Lasorda
mistake reality games
It was just a bad game. On the first goal, I just made a mistake and got scored on and it just snowballed from there. It happens sometimes. You don't want it, but it's the reality. I just have to refocus. Tomas Vokoun
mistake making-mistakes matter
We all make mistakes. It's how we come back from the mistakes that matters. Tom Welling
mistake thinking uprising
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation. Tom Segev
mistake mean men
This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game. Steve Perry
mistake opportunity people
A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime. Steve McConnell
mistake blanket biggest-mistake
A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
mistake want way
I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities. Steve Buscemi