Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bum Phillips

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

Bryan Cranston

Let me demonstrate. When you greet a friend this is the duration of the kiss that's acceptable. "Hi, good to see you - yeah." When you make a mistake and stay too long at the lips, this is how long it is. "Hi, how are you? Good to see you." And that's what happened. It was like, "Uh-oh, what was that? Oh."

Bruno Mars

I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.

James Hilton

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

James Hillman

How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

James Hillman

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

James Dyson

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

James Dyson

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

James Dyson

The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.

James E. Faust

Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.

Jaromir Jagr

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Jaron Lanier

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

Janet Evanovich

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

Janet Evanovich

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Jane Pauley

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Ernst Mayr

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

Ernest Gaines

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Jason Katims

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why theyre making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

Jason Giambi

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

Fuzzy Zoeller

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

Fulton J. Sheen

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Christine Todd Whitman

As I look back I know that most of the mistakes I have made have come when I didn't listen to myself, when I didn't trust my instincts... I believe you need to listen, carefully, to hear your inner voice. And then, you have to do what it says.

Chris Pronger

Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

Chris Pronger

In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold. Now you have a split second to make a hit, or decide to pull up. When there's indecision, you're going to make a mistake.

Gilbert Arenas

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

Gilbert Gottfried

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

Germaine Greer

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

Gertrude Stein

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Gertrude Stein

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Gretchen Bleiler

Imagine if the mistakes we made actually helped us to just become better versions of ourselves. I believe this is what life is about, and when we look at it this way, then there is nothing to be afraid of!

Greta Gerwig

I like things that look like mistakes.

Gretchen Rubin

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gordon B. Hinckley

None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We all have weaknesses and I guess we all make mistakes and will make mistakes in the future, but look for the virtues, the strengths, the goodness in those with whom you labor, and draw those characteristics into your own lives and make them a part of yourselves, and you will be the richer for it all the days that you live.