Mistake Quotes
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Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'
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It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
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Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly-no mistake.
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The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.
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So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake.
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Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
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I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
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What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
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It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
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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.
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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
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A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything
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Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
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I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again.
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When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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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.
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Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.
