Quotes About Mistakes

She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

It was said by one hon. Gentleman last night that it was of no use crying over spilt milk, and certainly the observation was a just one so far as regarded the milk already spilt. But if by crying one could prevent other milk from being spilt in future, then the crying might be a very useful process.

There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can't expect to avoid them all.

It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

Kud sam ja sve lutao? Kud su padale moje teznje, koliko posrtao, koliko bludio u mislima i grijesio u zivotu! - Kako da vam kazem kad to i rodjeno moje sjecanje zaboravlja! Oholost me je nosila kao vjetar. Oganj kojim mi je sagarala dusa nije me izjedao nego mi je davao snagu i zamah. Na borbe svijeta ja sam gledao kao sto se s vedra visa gleda na magle koje se nadvijaju po dolinama. Bio sam nijemi, oholi gost zivota.

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I've done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.

We find ways of repeating things until we get them right. But that can be dangerous. Especially if we're trying to fix things we never should have owned in the first place.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, she added, because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

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.

The difference between Koppell and Olberman types is that one gives editorializing in all its editorial frankness so there are no mistakes as to bias, and the other passes off a subtler bias as objectivity.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.

I made mistakes, I know, but I'm not the ugly duckling that some people seem to think.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.

I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.