The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
~By Georges Carpentier ~
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.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
~By Larry Niven ~
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
~By Miles Davis ~
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
~By e. e. cummings ~
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 ~
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
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 ~
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
~By Pete Sampras ~
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
~By Rick Pitino ~
I was shaped by my mistakes.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
~By David Packard ~
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~By Conrad Hilton ~
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
~By James Gordon Bennett ~
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
~By Ansel Adams ~
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
~By Bob Kerrey ~
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~By Mel Brooks ~
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.
~By Ian Walker ~
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 ~
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 ~
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
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 ~
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
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 ~
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
~By Romain Rolland ~
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
~By Woody Allen ~
It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
~By Boris Becker ~
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
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 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 ~
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.
~By Robert Smithson ~
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
~By Andy Rooney ~
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
~By Ken Hill ~
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
~By Billy Wilder ~
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
~By Gene Tierney ~
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
~By Jacques-Louis David ~
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
~By Brenda Ueland ~
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 ~
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
~By Frank Capra ~
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
~By Adam Osborne ~
You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
~By Kim Kardashian ~
I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.
~By Larry King ~
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~By Holly Near ~
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 ~
Every human being makes mistakes.
~By Ian Smith ~
We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
~By John Clayton ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
~By Murray Walker ~
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
~By Joan Jett ~
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
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 ~
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
~By Holly Near ~
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
~By Ring Lardner ~
I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
~By William Green ~
I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.
~By Ashley Scott ~
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 ~
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
~By John Wooden ~
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
~By James Hillman ~
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 ~
I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.
~By Jake Roberts ~
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 ~
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
~By Philip Knight ~
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
~By George Muller ~
We made too many wrong mistakes.
~By Yogi Berra ~
You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.
~By Dennis Brown ~
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
~By Don Marquis ~
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