Mistake Quotes

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams
- Man
- Avoid
- Learns
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

James Q. Wilson
- School
- Mistake

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
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
We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake - like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

Marvin Minsky
- Single
- Serious
- Door
Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.

Artur Boruc
To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Hannah Arendt
- Thinking
- Truth
- Mistake
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Daniel Radcliffe
- People
- True
- Learning