Mistake Quotes

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.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

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.