Mistake Quotes

• Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Done
  • Think
  • Flowers

• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mistake
  • Person
  • Incapable

• Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Shocked
  • Affections
  • Inevitably

• I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mistake
  • Prophecy
  • Gratuitous

• We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Mistake

• The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: 'No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mistake

• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Failing
  • Idiot

• I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Mistake

• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Satisfaction
  • Human Life
  • Achieves

• If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

  

  Vladimir Horowitz
  • Play
  • Notes
  • Dynamics

• In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. It didn't matter who the coach was or what method they used. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Done
  • Coaching

• If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a very long time.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fashion

• 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

• I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Life
  • Women
  • May

• The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

  

  David Malpass
  • Job
  • Single
  • Financial

• Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • Mistake

• It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Mistake
  • Courage
  • Show

• Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Good
  • Photography
  • Emotion

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Design

• In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

  

  William Pollard
  • Focus
  • Mistake
  • Kitchen

• Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Mistake
  • Facts
  • Willing

• In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Beginning

• Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Life
  • Real
  • Teenager

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