Quotes with mistake

  • That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
  • It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
  • My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
  • Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
  • Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
  • I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
  • A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
  • My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
  • Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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  • William E. Gladstone Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • John Wooden Don't mistake activity for achievement.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Henry Ford Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Confucius A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Sigmund Freud America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it - immediately.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • B. F. Skinner A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Doug Larson A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Bob Dylan A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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