Mistakes Quotes

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Every human being makes mistakes.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

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.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.