Mistakes Quotes

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.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.