Quotes About Mistake

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

It is a mistake to mix politics and sport.

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

A lot of the O'Hare Modernization Plan may have been a mistake.

So if the wall's cracked or you've got leaky faucets, or you've got mold issues, or some sort of damage to your home, selling a home that's got that kind of distress to it is the biggest mistake you will make, because immediately people who are fearful will walk away.

As a complete score, I love 'Sherlock Holmes' - but we cast it badly. We put Ron Moody into the part - a great Fagin, not a great Sherlock Holmes.

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.

Cualquiera puede cometer un error, subteniente, pero el error no se convierte en equivocación hasta que el causante se niega a corregirlo.

Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." He raised a finger—

To err is human. To kill is evil.

Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.

The fault was lying on its' back...

I'm quite comfortable with making the odd mistake, if it comes in the pursuit of new opportunities and new ideas Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand CEO

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

Él, Dios, había cometido un desastroso e imperdonable error de juicio: diseñar un universo imperfecto.

To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password."—UNKNOWN

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Voh waqt bhee deykha taareekh kee gharion nay Lamhon nay khataa kee thee Sadiyon nay sazaa paayee (The ages of history have recorded times when for an error made in a few seconds centuries had to pay the price.)

Life is running backwards. What did I do wrong?