Mistake Quotes · Page 105

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

— Ayn Rand

If you commit the same mistake more than once, it is no longer considered a mistake. It's a conscious decision.

— Anonymous

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

— Milton Friedman

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

— Nana Patekar

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

— Brett Favre

“You made a mistake, and sadly, time travel has not yet been invented, so just move on because time does not sympathize…

— Dave Guerrero

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

— Deepak Chopra

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

— Lisa Kleypas

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status…

— Jurgen Habermas

“We’d like to see the security supervisor,” Isaiah said. “You mean Ed?” she said, as if they were making a silly mistake.…

— Joe Ide

People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or…

— Joel Osteen

I think, not only Al Qaida have an ideology; they have tactics necessary to spread their ideology. And it would be a…

— George W. Bush

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and…

— Hosni Mubarak

It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and…

— Brenda Shoshanna

To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can…

— Randal Marlin

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means…

— Zach Braff

See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who…

— Will Rogers

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid…

— Alex Kozinski

Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community…

— Ralph Borsodi

Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec…

— Terry Rossio

I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that…

— Kevin Sabet

Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes…

— Daniel Coyle

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong.…

— Katie Aselton

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

— Kim Kardashian

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

— Anonymous

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

— John Bradshaw

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

— Christine Kane

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

— Laurie Garrett

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Maybe sex with him was a mistake, but on the other hand, some mistakes are like a good margarita—impossible to stop after…

— Chloe Lukas

It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.

— Carl Hart

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

— Katherine Jenkins

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

— Michael Redhill

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our…

— Esther Dyson

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no…

— Joseph Brodsky

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of…

— Helen Mirren

We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.

— Susan Burton

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug…

— R. Lee Ermey