Quotes About Mistake

I have played the fool.

Chance takers are accident makers.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key.

General Failure's Fault. Not Yours.

Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Drunken, foolhardy Aethon mistakes a magical city in a play for a real place. He sets off for Thessaly, land of magic, and accidentally turns himself into a donkey.

This was a disastrous error in judgment, as Brutus and his friends now realized.

both Sextus' fleet and infantry held back. This was a serious error

Antony's final mistake was to let his slow baggage train

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.

I wondered now if I had behaved badly and, worse still, if I had broken something that was precious to me.

He knew what he was doing. So I never understood how he could have been so bloody stupid. The simple fact of the matter is that there was no reason for him to die.

One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.

There are two types of mistake; bad ones and good ones. You were definitely one of the good ones.

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.