Quotes About Mistake

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

I think more than comedy, probably more than straight drama, I like horror. And horror I think I'm particularly good at. It's a mistake a lot of directors make, especially young directors. They always want to make the kind of movies that they most admire and aren't necessarily sensitive to what they have the best skill set for.

When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.

Not every brand needs to be on every social platform. Brands should have a very strategic objective, whether it's marketing or commercial. The biggest mistake a brand can make is to be on a social platform without a plan or the resources to manage it.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

We're wired completely opposite in that sense. Basically, he's betting against change. We're betting for change. When he makes a mistake, it's because something changes that he didn't expect. When we make a mistake, it's because something doesn't change that we thought would. We could not be more different in that way. But

Hace poco me preguntaron si iba a despedir a un empleado que había cometido un error que le había costado a la empresa 600.000 dólares. No, respondí, acabo de gastarme 600.000 en formarle.» THOMAS J. WATSON, fundador de IBM

Based on everything I've seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what's in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That's it.

The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.

The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will

Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" The entire bridge had gone deathly still. Colclazure swallowed again, his face starting to go pale. "No, sir." "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I was going through this identity crisis of being like, 'I don't think I want to be a doctor anymore.' And, 'oh my god, have I made a huge mistake? What do I do?'

Oh my God, when I auditioned for 'Hamilton,' I kept messing up the words to 'Say No To This.'

I once had those really short Angelina Jolie in 'Girl, Interrupted' bangs - and that was a mistake for me.