Mistakes Quotes

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.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

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.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.

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.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.