Mistake Quotes · Page 106

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

— Molly Ivins

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

— Pythagoras

“Her biggest secret was standing right there before her. She just hoped he wasn’t also her biggest mistake.”

— Katharine McGee

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

— Margaret Atwood

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

— Anthony Bourdain

I hate when you make a mistake someone gets peed off, but when they make a mistake your supposed to move on…

— Anonymous

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

— Brian Tracy

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think a lot of guys make a mistake of training less as they get older. I think the older you get,…

— Carson Palmer

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon,…

— Julie Burchill

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret…

— Anonymous

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the…

— Jack LaLanne

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I…

— Brad D. Smith

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out,…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process…

— Barbara Jordan

“Even a child would think twice before touching a hot kettle once burned, but in Malaysia, we simply make new plans, and…

— Brian Yap

You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to…

— Pope Francis

Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have…

— Harry Reid

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great…

— Randall Jarrell

Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime…

— James E. Faust

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all…

— James Dyson

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I…

— Christopher Nolan

Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in…

— Gerhard Richter

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

— Brian Tracy

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

— Taylor Mali

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

— Marc Maron

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

— Argus Hamilton

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

— Annie Dillard

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.

— Taitetsu Unno

My eyes will never be blue; my bone structure will never allow for you to mistake me for a Scandinavian model.

— Leandra Medine

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

— Robert Kiyosaki

When we don't learn lessons at the right time, life will teach us the same lessons at the wrong time.

— Anonymous

We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

— Nicky Gumbel

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

— Winston Churchill

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

— Grayson Allen

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

— Milton Berle

We all make mistakes. It's how we come back from the mistakes that matters.

— Tom Welling

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio…

— Paul Wolfowitz