Mistakes Quotes

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

Bury your mistakes.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

Every human being makes mistakes.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.