Quotes About Mistake

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

Goals often come from a mistake much further up the field, yet the analysis and blame will always be on the defence.

Living in this world, we all just want to be happy. And I don't think it is right to be denied that opportunity over a single mistake.

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn't the man I am now.

I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal responsibility, the job of the government (read: completely uninvolved taxpayers) to pay for someone else's mistake.

I have always felt that promoting somebody else's mistake as a superlative product is not my cup of tea.

You will make a mistake in a game, fair enough, but you want your team-mates to help you out because it is a team game.

What was one more foolish decision in a life full of them?

MARKET GARDEN proved "an epic cock-up," as a British major averred, a poor plan with deficient intelligence, haphazard execution, and indifferent generalship

everyone has to do one really bad thing in life to call their life a life.

For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Adventure is just bad planning.

Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth.

behaved improperly with his wife-and lost his divorce suit in the bargain. On April 25, 1907, Cody wrote that

There is something to be gained with each misstep that is ultimately understood.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.