Quotes about mistake
mistake thinking knowing
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made. John McCain
mistake iran giving
The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.
mistake character people
Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.
mistake moving office
The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.
mistake mind president
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.
mistake believe agreement
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. John Jay Hooker
mistake thinking play
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending. John Hawkes
mistake glasses
I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake. John Gutfreund
mistake believe israel
Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone. John Doolittle
mistake responsibility fighting
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
mistake moving commitment
The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed. John C. Maxwell
mistake successful thinking
Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.
mistake writing men
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand. James Payn
mistakes
All of the mistakes we've made are very correctable,
mistake wine alcohol
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink. Gilbert K. Chesterton
mistake goes-on world
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
mistake ignorance men
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? Holbrook Jackson
mistake thinking kind
They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded. Holly Black
mistake common-sense finding-yourself
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong. Herman Wouk
mistake writing style
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
mistake engineering essence
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others. Henry Petroski
mistake making-mistakes
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do. Henry Ford
mistake love-is giving
Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake. Helen Rowland
mistake writing decision
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult. Helen Mirren
mistake men ignorant
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. Henry Ward Beecher
mistake opportunity hands
She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. Henry James
mistake inspirational-life ambassadors
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
mistake hero prudent
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. Johann Kaspar Lavater
mistake science building
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mistake together statistics
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
mistake people wish
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
mistake half quarters
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
mistake long
As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. Haruki Murakami