Mistake Quotes

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

You make a mistake, you keep going.

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.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

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.