You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
~By Scott Stapp ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
~By Ross Perot ~
An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
~By Camillo di Cavour ~
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
~By William Pollard ~
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
~By Bode Miller ~
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
~By Liz Smith ~
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
~By Janine Turner ~
You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
~By Joel Osteen ~
Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.
~By Robert Matsui ~
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
~By William Cowper ~
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
~By Richard Bach ~
I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
~By Corey Haim ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
~By Hildegard Knef ~
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
~By John C. Calhoun ~
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
~By Richard J. Needham ~
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 ~
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've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
~By William Green ~
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
~By Denis Waitley ~
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~By Sophia Loren ~
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 ~
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~By Conrad Hilton ~
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 ~
Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
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 ~
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
~By Carl Levin ~
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
~By Joseph J. Ellis ~
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
~By John Peel ~
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
~By Ansel Adams ~
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
~By John Bradshaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
~By Dick Schaap ~
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Every human being makes mistakes.
~By Ian Smith ~
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
~By Adam Osborne ~
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
~By Andy Rooney ~
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
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 ~
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~By Mel Brooks ~
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
~By Carl Levin ~
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 ~
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
~By Arabella Weir ~
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
~By Rick Pitino ~
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
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 ~
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
~By James Gordon Bennett ~
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
~By Niels Bohr ~
We made too many wrong mistakes.
~By Yogi Berra ~
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
~By Jamie Oliver ~
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
~By Red Skelton ~
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
~By Steven Wright ~
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 ~
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
~By Scott Stapp ~
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 ~
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
~By Fred Thompson ~
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
~By Kim Kardashian ~
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
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 ~
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
~By Billy Joel ~
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
~By Kurt Masur ~
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
~By Ethel Merman ~
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
~By Ted Williams ~
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
~By Jerry Gillies ~
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