Quotes About Mistake

I think, when I was younger, I might have scored on the wrong basket. That wasn't too smart.

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it… I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.

The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time.

Whatever motivated him, Lopsang's decision to tow a client didn't seem like a particularly serious mistake at the time. But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accrual, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation.

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.

There is a saying that only the man who has already committed a crime and repented of it is incapable of that crime; to be free of an erroneous opinion, I myself might add, one must at some time have professed it.

cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom.

Then Piglet saw what a Foolish Piglet he had been, and he was so ashamed of himself that he ran straight off home and went to bed with a headache.

Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Many financial disasters can be traced to people who thought they were hedging.

It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.

O my people! Ye have indeed wronged yourselves by your worship of the calf: so turn (in repentance) to your Maker, and slay yourselves (the wrongdoers); that will be better for you in the sight of your Maker.

After a long time, she says, "You won't make my mistake, will you?" Her gaze is soft and smiling once more, her wistful expression gone. "What mistake is that . . . Celeste?" "The mistake, Digby, of choosing to see more in your future mate than the evidence has already suggested.

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. "Fire you?" Mr. Watson asked. "I just spent $10 million educating you.

The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

You fucked up,' he said. 'Know that you're someone who fucked up. But know that doesn't make you a fuckup. The difference is a matter of repetition