Mistake Quotes

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Mistake

• I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Different
  • Tears

• I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

  

  Bridget Fonda
  • Pretty
  • Mistake

• If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mistake
  • Wins
  • Ibm

• I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Mistake

• I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

  

  James Altucher
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Mistake

• A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Song
  • Mistake

• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Think
  • Want
  • Research

• ...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Time
  • Mistake

• Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Time
  • Mistake

• Don’t mistake being fearful and weak-minded for being nice.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Nice
  • Mistake
  • Fearful

• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Science
  • Progress

• I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Happy
  • Mistake
  • Amendment

• The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Relationship
  • Mistake

• It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Mistake

• Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

  

  Valery Giscard d'Estaing
  • Mistake
  • Rejection

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Fudge

• The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn't going to compensate because it's just one piece of carbon fiber.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Mistake
  • Balance

• The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • Live
  • Truth

• I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Love
  • Hurt

• Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do, and you make the mistake of relying on people.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • People
  • Mistake

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