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Quotes About Mistake

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
~ Ken Thompson
It's not the mistake that's important; it's how you recover from it. If you recover instantly, in that second, it's gone from your mind. You play on and don't make the next mistake, and that's the sign of a top keeper. Joe Hart certainly is one of those guys.
~ Peter Schmeichel
In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.
~ Gulzar
Everyone's disappointed when they don't feel like they play well or they make a mistake. I'm the first one to hold my hand up and try and rectify that in training or the next game.
~ John Stones
Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
~ Sam Smith
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
~ Jacques Plante
How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
~ Caryl Chessman
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
~ Martin McGuinness
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
~ Ayrton Senna
I take risks; sometimes I lose the ball. It happens. This is the football.
~ Memphis Depay
My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor across from me was like, 'You know you're going to have to eat the same thing every single time.' I learned the hard way.
~ Phoebe Fox
The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.
~ George Monbiot
In the heavyweight division, you can't afford to make a mistake.
~ Tommy Morrison
Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I'm not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
One little mistake at the highest level costs you a fight, which I've learned.
~ Jimi Manuwa
It is a serious mistake to assume that people are simply always voting in their self-interest.
~ George Lakoff
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again
~ George MacDonald
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the business only of the clergy to care for souls.
~ George MacDonald
You will not be cold. I shall take care of that. Nobody is cold with the North Wind.' 'I thought everybody was,' said Diamond. 'That is a great mistake. Most people make it, however. They are cold because they are not with the North Wind, but without it.
~ George MacDonald
Those whose business it is to open doors, so often mistake and shut them!
~ George MacDonald
But may not one sometimes make a mistake without being able to help it?' 'Yes. But so long as he is not after his own ends, he will never make a serious mistake.
~ George MacDonald
Humble mistake will not hurt us: the truth is there, and the Lord will see that we come to know it. We may think we know it when we have scarce a glimpse of it; but the error of a true heart will not be allowed to ruin it. Certainly that heart would not have mistaken the truth except for the untruth yet remaining in it; but he who casts out devils will cast out that devil.
~ George MacDonald
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.
~ George MacDonald
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.
~ George Orwell