Quotes About Mistake

was. "Uh, hi, Walter. This is my daughter, Hayley, and this is her mom, Maggie McPherson." "Hi," Hayley said shyly. Maggie nodded and looked uncomfortable. Walter made the mistake of thrusting his hand out to Maggie. If she could have

the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

You want a university appointment?" "Yes." "That's a mistake," Hammond said briskly. "At least, if you respect your talent." Wu had blinked. "Why?" "Because, let's face facts," Hammond said. "Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country. The very idea is preposterous. Universities are the backwater. Don't look so surprised.

This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another—and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.

One error at the beginning is quite likely just that.

When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war.

Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef.

It was an argument about the precautionary principle v. the scientist's desire not to make a mistake, coupled with risk aversion that was all too characteristic of public health bureaucrats. It was literally driving Carter nuts.

Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

When one fails to take action that could have avoided a disaster, one does not accept responsibility for the occurrence of the disaster.

There was, Carter thought, a downside to experience. "Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence

You're going to make a mistake,' " said Carter. "The sin is making the same mistake twice. The best is to learn from other people's mistakes.

downside to experience. "Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence," he said. The line wasn't his, but he liked it.

A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid

I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.

We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

During a performance of 'Blood Brothers' in 1990, I forgot to sing. I was so moved by what my co-star Kiki Dee was doing, that I completely missed my cue.

There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.