Mistakes Quotes

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.