Quotes about mistake
mistake ignorance men
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? Holbrook Jackson
mistake heart knowing
Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down. Jonathan Franzen
mistake eye way-to-live
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it. Jonathan Coe
mistake ownership made
I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made. Jon Runyan
mistake ideas catholic
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background. Jon Voight
mistake believe creativity
The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong. Jonah Lehrer
mistake believe love-you
One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do. Jonah Goldberg
mistake iraq waiting
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11. Jon Stewart
mistake editing saws
I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made. Julie Delpy
mistake suffering lessons
If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn. Lee Iacocca
mistake same-mistakes parts-of-life
Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
mistake listening made
The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
mistake stories scandal
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story. Laurie Garrett
mistake hundred has-beens
I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything. Larry Brilliant
mistake responsibility likes
Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong. Lara Logan
mistake two errors
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. Thomas Aquinas
mistake stop-caring learning-from-mistakes
You learn from your mistakes. Thierry Henry
mistake book reading
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain. Terry Pratchett
mistake struggle men
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for. Terry Eagleton
mistake play erosion
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
mistake simple traitor
To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan Terry Goodkind
mistake character mark
Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.
mistake character handle
One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.
mistake sith defeat
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara
mistake hate tvs
I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes. Terry Bradshaw
mistake thinking careers
The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this. Terrence Howard
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 integrity two
Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome. Simon Sinek
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