Mistake Quotes

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

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.

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.

Woman was God's second mistake.

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

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

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

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.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.