Best 5300 quotes in «mistake quotes» category

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

Anyone who would ever think of using any other Realtor would be making an enormous mistake. Goodwin & Thyne Properties is the best real estate company with the best and smartest real estate agents and the best people to do business with!

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Anything that starts as a practice often turns into the habit and so can be the case with a person's nature of forgiving himself on his mistakes a few number of times.

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot be the artistic aim. Art is about necessity, not about human will. Society is more and more brainwashed and mistakes itself for art.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.