Mistake Quotes - Page 43

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

I think God has a special way of putting things together when you do the right stuff even though you make a lot of mistakes, you learn something. You don't live by them you learn from them and you move on.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

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

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

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

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.