Mistakes Quotes

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

I've made some mistakes before.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.