Mistake Quotes
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Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.
Jesse Livermore
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I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
Jesse Ventura
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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
William Arthur Ward
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My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
Mika Brzezinski
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I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
Tahereh Mafi
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It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.
Lando Norris
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The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.
Yasser Arafat
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When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.
Peter Schiff
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I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
Barack Obama
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Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
John Locke Nazareth
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
W. Edwards Deming
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You aren't going to be able to pass by going past the guy and keep going so it will take quite a while to set up a pass. I will follow him closely and wait for him to make a mistake before I can make the pass. I have a very good car for that. I will also be saving fuel and pick up positions in the pits so I have so many things on my side.
Helio Castroneves
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We've had comments from people we've played -- that play was the one that really scared them. Teams blitz a lot, and if you catch that thing and there's one mistake by the defense, it's all over.
Joe Gibbs
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Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
Stefon Harris
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
Van Jones
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Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.
Viswanathan Anand
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We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren't problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They'd get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.
Daniel Levitin
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When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
Erica Jong
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My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.
Penny Marshall
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Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.
Chris Pavone
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Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
William Shawcross
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I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.
Ellen Barkin