Quotes About Mistake

Hogin further writes that by doing so "such a man practices zazen in the wrong way." Here lies the mistake of the believers of "no-thought and no-thinking." These people forget that the true meaning of the phrase comes alive when they become one with susoku and koan.

Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."

What is difficult to acknowledge is that I saw this mistake coming and second-guessed myself, went against my own intuitive judgment. It wasn't that I had not seen the truth. I had. But I failed to find the courage to act on it. Of course, my intuition can be wrong. But making a wrong decision, acting on an intuition that is inaccurate, is a real mistake, one I can live with more easily than the mistake of failing to act on what, to the best of my ability, I know.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Haven't we known for a long time that it's a mistake to attach meaning to each and every action of a person? Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

Forgive me. I didn't mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

During the first break-in I grabbed a load of hangers and thought, 'Magic' , I'll be able to sell this stuff down the pub. But I'd forgotten to take a flashlight with me, and it turned out that the clothes I'd nicked were a bunch of babies' bibs and toddlers' underpants. I might as well have tried to sell a turd.

The fact that I ever raised my hand against a woman disgusts me. It was a f**king atrocious, unforgivable way to behave, and there's no excuse for it, ever. And like I said before, it's something I'll take to the grave with me.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

If not for the second-worst mistake of Grace Healey's life, she never would have found the suitcase.

So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.' Knowing he had given his trust amiss, how could he bestow it again?' That's foolish. Did he expect never to make any mistakes?

Without any intent, she'd managed to turn a wonderful, sweet guy like Eli into the same kind of creep she always ended up with. She'd thought she had changed. That she had grown. That falling for him was somehow evidence of that, but she had been wrong. It was exactly the same pattern. She had fallen in love with him and now he was going to treat her like crap.

The risk he was taking had to pay off. He had to win Mazy for himself. Even if he had to forfeit his own self-respect to make it happen. It was worth it to keep her from making a mistake again.

Cristo! The wrong thing to say to a woman he wished to calm.

What if this had been caused by your inattention?

The basic investment process is simple: Analyze the company and value the stock. If you avoid the mistake of confusing a great company with a great investment—and the two can be very different—you'll already be ahead of many of your investing peers. (Think of Cisco at 100 times earnings in 2000. It was a great company, but it was a terrible stock.)

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

I didn't leave her there for long. When a player makes a mistake, you always want to put them back in quickly—you don't just berate them and sit them down with no chance for redemption.

Fear is a good thing. It teaches you not to make the same mistake twice. You counter it with knowledge. - Bran

What happened last night was my fault," I said. "I put up the rope, Sarah. I must have done it wrong." "Fault?" said Sarah. "Oh, Caleb, I want you to listen to me. There comes a time when fault doesn't matter. Things happen. And we can't blame ourselves--or someone else--forever." I heard a noise behind me, and saw Papa standing there, Cassie beside him. I knew he had heard Sarah's words.

He'd misjudged her, badly.

Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.