The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
~By Shelby Foote ~
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.
~By Erik Erikson ~
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
~By Lester Bangs ~
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
~By W. H. Auden ~
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
~By Bob Graham ~
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
~By Gene Roddenberry ~
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
~By Arthur Miller ~
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
~By Niels Bohr ~
I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
~By John Hawkes ~
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
~By William J. Mayo ~
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
You learn from your mistakes.
~By Thierry Henry ~
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
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 ~
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
~By Tiffeny Milbrett ~
And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
~By Walter Martin ~
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
~By Alexander Kerensky ~
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
~By Ann Beattie ~
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
~By Dean Kamen ~
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
~By Vince Gill ~
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.
~By Ian Walker ~
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
~By Carl Levin ~
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
~By George Wald ~
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
~By Miguel Cabrera ~
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
~By Janine Turner ~
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
~By Alexandra Ripley ~
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
~By Richard Curtis ~
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
~By Nick Clooney ~
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
~By Denis Waitley ~
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Most of the people who get off at our exit get off by mistake. They thought it was Exit 57.
~By Tom Perkins ~
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
~By Peter Drucker ~
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
~By Bill Watterson ~
No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.
~By Scott Stapp ~
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
~By Patrick Marber ~
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 ~
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~By Josh Billings ~
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
~By Compay Segundo ~
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
~By Ezra Pound ~
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
~By Emmet Fox ~
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.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.
~By Michael Connelly ~
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
~By William Randolph Hearst ~
Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.
~By Evander Holyfield ~
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
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.
~By Zoe Lofgren ~
In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
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 ~
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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.
~By Martin Lawrence ~
Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.
~By Sophia Bush ~
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.
~By Fred Astaire ~
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 ~
We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.
~By Tim Conway ~
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
~By Jay Inslee ~
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
~By William Green ~
We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
~By David Dimbleby ~
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
~By Henry James ~
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've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
~By Jack Welch ~
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.
~By Bridget Fonda ~
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
~By Calvin Klein ~
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
~By Marie Louise ~
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
~By Denis Waitley ~
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
~By Claude Pepper ~
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
~By Red Skelton ~
That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
~By Lauren Hutton ~
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.
~By Greer Garson ~
I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
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