Mistake Quotes - Page 91

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.

Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Make mistakes faster.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject.

With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here