Mistake Quotes · Page 145

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

— Nana Patekar

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

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

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

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

If a girl understands your BS, sticks with you through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for her, it's obvious…

— Lil Wayne

I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are…

— Rand Paul

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else…

— Chris Christie

Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to…

— Ernie J Zelinski

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is…

— John Wooden

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make…

— Raj Patel

“The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as…

— J.M. Coetzee

There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a…

— George Eliot

The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years…

— Paul Krugman

We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.…

— Pema Chodron

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order…

— Jane Jacobs

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you…

— Ricky Gervais

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they…

— Agnes Martin

It's no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time…

— Aisha Hinds

My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash…

— Brian Mulroney

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

— Laurie Garrett

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

— Carl Hart

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

— Michael Redhill

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

— Katherine Jenkins

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

— Esther Dyson

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

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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

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

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

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

— Anonymous