Quotes About Mistake

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

Because what is fate, but that moment when you're playing the computer on the hardest difficulty setting, you've run out of life force and you make that one mistake. It's those excruciating moments that pass by like an eternity before that final hit comes. You know you've fucked up, and there's no way of going back. You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

The suggestion was put to us that we should become non-resident in the UK for one year so that we could earn some money and replenish the dwindling coffers, and provide some time for our accountants and tax specialists to salvage something from the wreckage. The whole experience cast an enormous cloud over us. We had always prided ourselves on being smart enough not to be caught out like this. We saw ourselves as educated, middle class, in control of everything. We had been utterly wrong.

I think she knows she's made a terrible, irreversible mistake, but she can't stop because if she did, she'd have to acknowledge the mistake and the fact that people really don't care. They just think she's a freak.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Well, I was wrong!' Mrs Badger snapped. 'And I don't want you to say another word against Retsnom – do you

Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Vazgeçiyorum, bütün insanl???n önünde e?ilerek özür diliyorum; beni yanl??l?kla ç?kard?lar sahneye.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.

Do not always assume motive where human error will suffice.

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

On a bien le droit de se tromper, après tout, mème volontairement.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy

The lay Zen Master Kawajiri Hogin also warns against this empty type of sitting: To begin with, most people who practice zazen consciously try to make themselves empty. This is a grave mistake because you have thoughts about becoming empty, and it is futile to sit however long you may try to do so.