Mistake Quotes

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Never mistake motion for action.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

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.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.