Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think this is a mistake for the town.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

Barry Ritholtz

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

B. F. Skinner

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

We never really got anything going. We made some mistakes, interceptions. But it wasn't all the quarterback. We had some routes not run correctly.

Bill Crawford

Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.

Bill Crawford

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

C. S. Lewis

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

C. S. Lewis

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Cathy Moriarty

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Cecelia Ahern

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

Carrie Underwood

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

Carl Rogers

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

Bill Bryson

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

Bethenny Frankel

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

Bette Davis

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Ashton Kutcher

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Aron Ralston

I certainly made mistakes.

Arsene Wenger

Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.

Bertrand Russell

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

Bertrand Russell

Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.

Bertrand Russell

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Channing Frye

That was really deflating. We're right there and then boom, boom. At least it's us making mistakes that we can correct.

Mickael Pietrus

That was just a mistake for me. I don't want to think about that. I've already moved on to Wednesday's game.

That was a mistake. We're trying to right that mistake.

That's the typical premium being paid, and that's a mistake for many buyers.

Tim Wiese

That's the kind of mistake you make once in your life.

Jim Furyk

I was over the top of the swing, ... It never had a chance. You can't make that mistake left.

Patrick Lalime

Little mistakes at the end ... I'm not sure what happened.

Sandis Ozolinsh

I was trying to get there and sweep the puck away. It was an unfortunate mistake and took our momentum away.

Well, we were still kind of sloppy in the first half. We made a lot of simple mistakes in tackling and, again, penalties.

I think it would be a mistake to underestimate him.