Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barth

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.

Jim Nussle

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

Jim Petro

When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.

Jim Otto

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

Jim Otto

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

Jim Lehrer

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

Joanna Garcia

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Jim Rohn

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.

Jim Rohn

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

Jim Rohn

Never mistake the power of influence

Jim Rohn

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

Jim Rohn

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Jim Rohn

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

George Matthew Adams

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

They do as well as they can. Everybody's human, they make mistakes,

Kenny Rogers

It's not like it's the first mistake I've made in my life. I've never professed to being perfect.

Richard Garnett

It's not the usual thing, but it doesn't strike me as being troubling. It would be a mistake to read it as payback.

I tried stuff, but it wasn't really working, so I waited for him to make a mistake. He was flat-footed.

They're going to make a lot of mistakes because they're young, but they're so athletic.

They're making mistakes they won't be making in another two weeks.

Joe Torre

It was only a mistake because it's spring training.

Keith Brooking

It wasn't pretty today, ... That's for sure. There were so many mistakes out there. A lot of it, I think, was on us, the linebackers. We've just got to get better.

It was a referee who made the mistake, and he's the one who should be punished. But the team that won its points cleanly will be punished the same way.

John Curtin

It was a technical mistake on their (DEP) end.

David D. Burns

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Chris Cain

I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.

Chris Bauer

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Chinua Achebe

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

Daymond John

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.

Daymond John

Try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner’s money or assets you’ve learned and you don’t make bigger mistakes. Try to go as far as you can without anybody else’s help first.

Ben Webster

I dont listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.