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Best Quotes About Mistake (Top 100)
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein -
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Douglas Adams -
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.
Thomas Wolfe -
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley -
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne -
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
Lester Bangs -
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller -
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
Jean Kerr -
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash -
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Norman Vincent Peale -
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein -
We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.
John Dewey -
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
Norton Juster -
If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.
Bill Gates -
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
Orson Scott Card -
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce -
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 -
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection
Drake -
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
Ken Follett -
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
Idi Amin -
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von Bismarck -
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius -
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton -
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.
Jon Krakauer -
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
Alfred Adler -
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix -
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
Julia Child -
I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
Marilyn Monroe -
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
Malcolm X -
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
John Dewey -
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Shimon Peres -
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.
Democritus -
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson -
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch -
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.
Tim O'Brien -
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.
Gerald Massey -
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
Nora Ephron -
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will surviveânor will we deserve to.
Leonard Peltier -
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
Raymond Carver -
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.
Steven Johnson -
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Marva Collins -
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
Aberjhani -
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson -
I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
Thomas Harris -
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
Angelina Jolie -
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.
Lionel Shriver -
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand -
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Isocrates -
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes -
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Ann Richards -
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
Saul Bellow -
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros -
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
Brandon Mull -
One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.
Richard Carlson -
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
Peter Cook -
I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.
Andrea Gibson -
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
B.K.S. Iyengar -
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce -
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder -
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.
Leon Trotsky -
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow -
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
Garry Marshall -
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it
John Lennon -
Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.
Carrie Underwood -
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.
Danielle LaPorte -
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.
Philip K. Dick -
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland -
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire -
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard Fillmore -
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Lillian Hellman -
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
Larry McMurtry -
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
Marguerite Yourcenar -
you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice
Lauren Conrad -
I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.
Cheryl Cole -
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper -
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Hugh Prather -
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder -
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford -
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen -
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
Amos Tversky -
Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.
Glenn Beck -
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton -
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford -
Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.
Oprah Winfrey -
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West -
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst -
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.
Milan Kundera -
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Werner Herzog -
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Hugh Prather
Even More Mistake Quotes
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Werner Herzog -
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Frank Capra -
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins -
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham -
Never mistake legibility for communication.
David Carson -
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Thomas J. Watson -
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw -
I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence -
In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing—the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.
May Sarton -
Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.
J. Willard Marriott -
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan -
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple -
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Barbara Stanwyck -
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis Miguel -
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Vernon Howard -
I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
Alberto Gonzales -
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen -
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.
Ernst Mayr -
Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
George Foreman -
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Hyman Rickover -
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne -
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus -
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
Joy Harjo -
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson -
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel -
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
Dave Pelzer -
I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.
Simon Pegg -
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.
Maira Kalman -
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes—in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer—you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin -
I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Judith Viorst -
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins -
Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.
Stephen Sondheim -
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
David Irving -
Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
John Cleese -
The main question to a novel is — did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not — story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.
Sydney Smith -
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
Fred Hoyle -
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein -
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.
Steven Brust -
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
Hildegard Knef -
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud -
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice Wood -
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Sean Covey -
Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!
Gareth Roberts -
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
Adeline Knapp -
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 -
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille Clifton -
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
Carl Icahn -
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
Brenda Jackson -
Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Richard Carlson -
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather -
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
Freya Stark -
Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.
Sonia Sotomayor -
Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.
Margaret Weis -
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
R. Scott Bakker -
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin -
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
Andre Norton -
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
Fred Hoyle -
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it's not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren't jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.
Ethan Hawke -
I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
Claudia Schiffer -
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.
John Wayne -
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman -
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.
Marc Maron -
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
Will Cuppy -
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy -
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes -
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
Anne O'Hare McCormick -
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.
Len Deighton -
Always make new mistakes.
Esther Dyson -
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.
Jim Thompson -
Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible
Cherie Carter-Scott -
Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.
Joe Hill -
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this... ...Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away form the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.
Georges Braque -
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Ben Harper -
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.
Dave Sim -
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.
Larry Niven -
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Casey Stengel -
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren -
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.
Giuseppe Verdi -
Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
Olaf Stapledon -
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
Ava Gardner -
There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Jane Pauley -
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry Kissinger -
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Peter Ustinov -
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.
Donald Davidson -
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne -
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
George Canning -
Some part of a mistake is always correct
Savielly Tartakower -
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Norman Thomas -
I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.
Al Davis -
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells -
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
David Millar -
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale -
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.
John Ashcroft -
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
David Packard -
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
Abraham Foxman -
Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
Johan Cruijff -
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Jean Toomer -
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
William Allen White -
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards -
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
Robert Townsend -
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
Doug Larson -
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.
Denis Johnson -
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 -
I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.
Abraham Foxman -
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino -
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore -
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
Akio Morita -
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Jacques Plante -
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Cynthia Ozick -
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg -
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.
Stephen Covey -
Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.
Greg Norman -
I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.
Augustus De Morgan -
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
Benjamin Jowett -
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn -
People really need to take time and read a book, you know, that's my advice. You could read 'A New Slant on Life,' you could read 'Dianetics.' And I think if you really read it, you'll understand it, but unless you do, you'll speculate. And I think that's a mistake to do that.
John Travolta -
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Anthony Trollope -
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Phyllis Diller -
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
Chuck Daly -
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
Cybill Shepherd -
The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
Bill Klem -
The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.
Lakshmi Mittal -
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
Margery Allingham -
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
James Bryce -
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.
John Mortimer -
Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.
Dean Acheson -
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang -
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld -
I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.
Larry McMurtry -
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Bobby Sherman -
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro -
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan -
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.
Jonathan Coe -
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf -
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin -
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen -
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
Ani DiFranco -
Life is not life unless you make mistakes
Joan Collins -
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned
Alicia Keys -
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper -
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
Gene Tierney -
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
Sam Rayburn -
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin -
Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.
Robert Townsend -
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.
Merv Griffin -
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward -
The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much. I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.
Paula Poundstone -
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Ernest Hemingway -
I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
Phil Rizzuto -
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz -
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
Lord Chesterfield -
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.
Jerry Stahl -
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand -
If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.
Bing Crosby -
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis -
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift -
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
Barry Levinson -
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill -
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
Plato -
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
John J. McCloy -
I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.
Nicolas Sarkozy -
We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.
Felix Sabates -
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
William Bolitho -
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
Phyllis Bottome -
The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
Gregory Benford -
I dont listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Ben Webster -
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.
Ron Reagan -
I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
Casey Stengel -
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill -
Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Gene Littler -
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
Baltasar Gracian -
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
Mark Twain -
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered
Christian Nevell Bovee -
What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.
David Gill -
Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.
Neil Finn -
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman