Mistake Quotes
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Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
Ernest Mandel
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I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.
Kit Harington
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Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
Scott McClellan
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At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.
Donella Meadows
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sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.
Rita Mae Brown
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The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.
Tommy Lee Jones
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What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.
Quincy Jones
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Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.
Harvey Penick
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I always say what happened in the past - and I've said this before - what happened in the past, is already in the past, and you have to leave it in the past. You have to get experience from that. The next season, you have to not make that mistake.
Carlos Zambrano
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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense - better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
Peter Greenaway
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When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.
Charlie McCreevy
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Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
Sebastian Vettel
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I think the biggest mistake people make is not believing in themselves enough.
Rich Piana
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I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.
Ed Crane
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I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.
Scott Westerfeld
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I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.
Sean William Scott
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He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
Daniel Wallace
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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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Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
Stefon Harris
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The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible
Cherie Carter-Scott
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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