Quotes about mistake
mistake loss self
Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself. Wayne Dyer
mistake way rich
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round. Walter Annenberg
mistake trying
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot
mistake things-in-life important
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
mistake reality errors
There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality. Werner Heisenberg
mistake failure plain-language
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
mistake people experts
Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.
mistake illumination facts
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. Werner Herzog
mistake judging way
We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way. Wallace Stegner
mistake thinking easy
it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
mistake making-mistakes daring
Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything. Samuel Smiles
mistake congratulations men
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
mistake stories enough
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. Samuel Beckett
mistake past government
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. Samuel Dash
mistake recovery character
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. Samuel L. Jackson
mistake my-mistakes
My mistakes are my life.
mistake sacred rationalize
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. Salvador Dali
mistake cutting giving
The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it. Salma Hayek
mistake thinking historical
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world. Salman Rushdie
mistake oil giving
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
mistake men sole
Man is nature's sole mistake. W. S. Gilbert
mistake usual leaves-of-grass
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. Walt Whitman
mistake firsts arguing
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. Saul Bellow
mistake rap ghetto
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. Saul Williams
mistake recovery simplicity
He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.
mistake identity facts
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. Sarah Churchwell
mistake choices detours
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes. Sarah Jessica Parker
mistake forever matter
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you. Sarah Dessen
mistake adversity thinking
I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life. Sandra Bullock
mistake choices made
I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.
mistake hero iron
(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly. Roger Ebert
mistake writing intelligent
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. Rod Serling
mistake self people
We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake we all make is to identify ourselves with some content of consciousness rather than with consciousness itself. Some people get their identity from their feelings, others from their thoughts, others from their social roles. But this identification with a part of the personality destroys the freedom which comes from the experience of the pure “I”. Roberto Assagioli