Quotes About Mistake

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.

No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place.

The greatest mistake is for a man to forsake his Maker.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.