Mistake Quotes

5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. — Garry Kasparov
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. — Joy Harjo
Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have… — Gia Carangi
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's… — Mike Tyson
Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try. — George Foreman
Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how… — Malcolm X
Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out… — Malcolm X
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the… — Malcolm X
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do… — Chuck Mangione
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover… — Brian De Palma
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities. — Len Deighton
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round… — Margery Allingham
This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make… — Patricia Highsmith
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The… — Larry Niven
Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake. — Pol Pot
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us and… — Pol Pot
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it… — Gorgias
In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at… — Clive James
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let… — Frank Herbert
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these… — Frank Herbert
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a… — Daniel Libeskind
The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many… — Ayrton Senna
The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you… — Ayrton Senna

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