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Quotes About Mistake

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
~ Timothy Geithner
It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
~ Bela Kun
What damn fool punches his own horse?
~ Unknown
Oops! This young scientist tried to clean his friends' copper ID bracelets. But the acid was too strong and it removed part of each letter! Question: Can you add the missing lines to complete the letters and see to whom each bracelet belongs?
~ Unknown
One time I bought a pound cake that weighed 14 ounces.
~ Unknown
Be careful what you practice--you may get really good at the wrong thing.
~ Unknown
Habéis perdido a vuestro tío! ¡Qué despistados!
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Bombing that city was a terrible mistake," the four-star general says on television, "but it taught me a lot about myself." Maybe he should give a medal to his therapist.
~ Tony Hoagland
Los locos son una terrible equivocación de la Naturaleza; son las faltas de ortografía de Dios.
~ Unknown
But, like always, Meowth made a mistake. Snap was good at capturing Pokémon — on film. He was a photographer, not a Pokémon trainer.
~ Unknown
It was an accident," Deborah declared. "Yeah, the man she intended to hit ducked. I just happened to be behind him.
~ Tracie Peterson
What the hell happened?' Jack asked, grinning. 'Slight accident in the marshland,' Gwen said. 'We wandered off the path at Greendown Moss. Big mistake.' 'That's a relief,' Owen said with a sardonic smile. 'For a moment I thought you'd been mud-wrestling together and I'd missed it.' 'In your dreams.' 'Only when I'm bored, girls. Only when I'm bored.
~ Unknown
But —" she said, her voice swallowed by the hot air in the hushed room. "But I burnded it.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I'm sorry!" he yelped. "Sorry, sorry, sorry! I missed. Here, let me try again." She eyed him suspiciously. He looked not so much "deeply repentant," as "trying to hide his giggles.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
This white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Kind of an idiot MudWing move,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
accidentally knocking
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I also wouldn't have eaten that thing this morning that looked like a slug and turned out to be a slug.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Many organizations make the mistake of using metrics in place of thematic and strategic goals. This is a problem because metrics do not inspire enthusiasm among employees.
~ Patrick Lencioni
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
~ Patrick O'Brian
so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking
~ Paul Feig
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.
~ Paul Levine
And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.
~ Paulo Coelho