Mistake Quotes

5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to… — Rhonda Byrne
All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is… — Robin Williams
The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad… — Edward Snowden
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every… — Michael Chabon
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing… — Jeffrey Carver
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms… — Sol Stein
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them. — Donald Trump
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor… — Margaret Sanger
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — Garry Winogrand
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about… — Jose Raul Capablanca
I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and… — Diane Arbus
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Some part of a mistake is always correct — Savielly Tartakower
The mistakes are there, waiting to be made — Savielly Tartakower
What would Chess be without silly mistakes? — Unknown Author
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural… — Mark Udall
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack… — Lewis Thomas
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not… — Chris Hedges
Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by… — Elias Lyman Magoon
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is… — Jimmy Carter
When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake. — Unknown Author
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no… — Ron Paul

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