It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
~By Sophia Loren ~
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
~By Alvin Dark ~
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
~By Bill Murray ~
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
~By Dave Brubeck ~
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
~By John Wooden ~
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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.
~By Johnny Cash ~
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.
~By Ashley Scott ~
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.
~By Robert Smithson ~
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
~By Miles Davis ~
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
~By Steve Jobs ~
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
~By John Dingell ~
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
~By George Soros ~
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
~By Idi Amin ~
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
~By Dean Acheson ~
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
~By Jim Saxton ~
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
~By Donald Trump ~
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
~By Brian McKnight ~
Most of the people who get off at our exit get off by mistake. They thought it was Exit 57.
~By Tom Perkins ~
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
~By Ben Bradlee ~
There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
~By Damon Hill ~
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
~By Jane Austen ~
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
~By William Randolph Hearst ~
I made a big mistake of my life.
~By Robert Jenkins ~
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
~By Joseph J. Ellis ~
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
~By Barack Obama ~
However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
~By Bob Riley ~
If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.
~By Brent Spiner ~
I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
~By Hansie Cronje ~
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
~By Walter Gropius ~
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
~By Carl Levin ~
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
~By Adam Osborne ~
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.
~By Andre Norton ~
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
~By Lois Capps ~
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
~By John Le Carre ~
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
~By Ring Lardner ~
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
~By Arabella Weir ~
And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
~By Daniel De Leon ~
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
~By Earl Warren ~
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
~By Gary Bauer ~
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.
~By Moss Hart ~
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.
~By Chris Bell ~
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.
~By Carl Levin ~
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
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.
~By Casey Stengel ~
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
~By Nikki Giovanni ~
But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.
~By John Boehner ~
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
~By Frank McCourt ~
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
~By Joely Richardson ~
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~By James Joyce ~
If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
~By Coleman Hawkins ~
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
~By Orlando A. Battista ~
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
Man is nature's sole mistake.
~By William Gilbert ~
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
~By Paul Kane ~
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
~By Mark Udall ~
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.
~By Albert Einstein ~
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~By Mel Brooks ~
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
~By Robert Fripp ~
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
~By John Churton Collins ~
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
~By Lewis Grizzard ~
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
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