Mistake Quotes

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Parents

• You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Mistake
  • Looks
  • Understand

• I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Moving
  • Mistake
  • Doubt

• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Respect
  • Attitude
  • Beatles

• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  

  Al Franken
  • Life
  • Mistake

• The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Good
  • Art
  • Profound

• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Political

• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Courage

• I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • School
  • Mistake

• It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Wisdom
  • Care
  • Hurt

• The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reality
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Father

• The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

  

  Paul Walker
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

  

  Neko Case
  • Time
  • Mistake
  • Bible

• I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Fool
  • Easy
  • Advantage

• We have lived through this mistake for 60 years now.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Mistake

• My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • World
  • Character
  • Mistake

• A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

  

  Trey Songz
  • People
  • Women
  • Sexy

• The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Women
  • Change

• Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the best time to invest? It's today, not tomorrow.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Time
  • Today
  • Mistake

• A serious mistake in a nightie, A grave disappointment all roundIs all that you'll get from th'Almighty, Is all that you'll get underground.Oh he said: 'If you lay off the crumpetI'll see you alright in the end.Just hang on until the last trumpet.Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend.'

  

  James Fenton
  • Faith
  • Friend
  • Serious

• Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

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