Quotes About Mistake

information alone does not reliably change behavior. This is a common mistake people make, even well-meaning professionals. The assumption is this: If we give people the right information, it will change their attitudes, which in turn will change their behaviors. I call this the "Information-Action Fallacy.

The folly of one man, is the fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors.

Don't ever call the 'bush' the jungle. That marks you as a rank beginner.

Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong. We tried, but we didn't have the talent or the knowledge to make a rave record.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

The most common mistake when women go into the gym is to watch someone else do an exercise and start doing the same one.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

I said, 'Maz, if I hadn't screwed up that Game 7, you wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.'

A young woman who until the very end chose neither wisely or well

The Lord knows I shouldn't have done that . . ." he said to his men. "The Lord forbid that I . . . attack the Lord's anointed one, for the Lord himself has chosen him." —1 Samuel 24:6

De waarheid is een gecorrigeerde vergissing.

Avouer qu'on s'était trompé, c'est rendre le plus éclatant hommage à la perspicacité de son esprit.

Churchill himself would later, if privately, say that returning to gold was the worst mistake of his life, a high standard indeed.

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Eines der traurigsten Dinge im Leben ist, dass ein Mensch viele gute Taten tun muss, um zu beweisen, dass er tüchtig ist, aber nur einen Fehler zu begehen braucht, um zu beweisen, dass er nichts taugt.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.