Quotes About Mistake

A negative outcome could be a signal to go in and examine our decision-making. That outcome could also be due to bad luck, unrelated to our decision, in which case treating that outcome as a signal to change future decisions would be a mistake.

On another afternoon I entered Saint Patrice's Church just off the Boulevard de la Marne to tell a priest that I'd had an abortion. I immediately realized this was a mistake. I felt bathed in a halo of light and for him I was a criminal. Leaving the church, I realized that I was through with religion.

Quand cela m'est arrivé par mégarde, je me rattrapais, je m'en voulais.

Je rebrousse chemin, un détour assez long pour reprendre le chemin correct (mais j'étais capable de me rappeler où commençait l'erreur de route). Le bon chemin est surplombé par la voie ferrée.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.

It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

Marriage is an error of youth

It takes two to make an accident.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.

My dear boy, there's your big mistake. This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgement--the judgement to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance.

Vous m'avez dit qu'une conductrice imprudente ne risquait rien tant qu'elle ne rencontrait pas de conducteur imprudent. J'en ai rencontré un, vous ne croyez pas? Je veux dire que je me suis mise en danger en faisant une telle erreur de jugement. J'ai cru que vous étiez quelqu'un d'honnête, de loyal. J'ai cru que c'était là votre secret d'orgueil.

Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster.

At the reception, she had introduced a man to his own wife. Twice.