Mistakes Quotes

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Saying

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Something
  • Mistakes
  • Found

• I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.

  

  Brandy
  • Mistakes
  • Never Gave Up

• So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Choices
  • Roads
  • Detours

• One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Forever
  • Decisions
  • Regrets

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Up
  • War
  • Action

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • God
  • May

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Mistake

• By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Never
  • Mistakes
  • Ring

• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Research

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Growing

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

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