300 Quotes on Mistakes

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  Author: Slim Shady - Eminem

• Life's quiet truths seep through the chaos, each mistake sewn into the fabric of our journey; stitch plateaus steepens wisdom.

  Author: Alaric Mendes

• Success is a tapestry woven from the threads of creativity, mistakes, teamwork, and an occasional shot in the dark.

  Author: Sarah McRain

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  Author: William Ury

• Success is not about getting it right the first time, but learning from each mistake and getting it right eventually.

  Author: Lisa Thompson

• Timing is everything. Especially when it comes to accidentally sending a text to the wrong person.

  Author: Sarah Johnson

• A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.

  Author: Jane Doe

• The biggest mistake you can make is to continually fear making ones.

  Author: Bianca Smith

• Success is not built on the failures of others, but on the lessons learned from our own mistakes.

  Author: Lisa Jackson

• The only mistake is not learning from our mistakes.

  Author: Sarah Jones

• Lose the fear of failure, for it's only through our mistakes that we pave the path to success.

  Author: Vivian Anderson

• Life's greatest lessons are often found amidst our biggest mistakes.

  Author: Samantha Jones

• The key to success is not in doing everything perfectly, but in learning and growing from our mistakes.

  Author: Samantha Smith

• Mistakes are a stepping stone to wisdom, embrace them as opportunities for growth.

  Author: Claire Lopez

• A wise man learns from his mistakes, but an even wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.

  Author: John Smith

• Creativity is intelligence making mistakes look beautiful.

  Author: Johnathan Masters

• The biggest mistake you can make is being too afraid to make one

  Author: Jessica Johnson

• Every mistake is a lesson in disguise, showing us the way to growth and wisdom.

  Author: Sophia Stewart

• In every mistake there is a lesson, and in every lesson there is growth.

  Author: Sara Johnson

• A beginner is simply a more experienced failure

  Author: Maya Angelou

• True creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Author: Scott Adams

• Wisdom is the harmony between lessons learned and mistakes forgotten.

  Author: Samantha Evans

• A wise person once said, 'Cherish your mistakes, they teach you valuable lessons.'

  Author: Jasmine Lee

• Every challenge is an opportunity for growth, and every failure is a lesson in disguise.

  Author: Sophia Morales

• Intelligence lies in learning from mistakes, wisdom in avoiding them altogether.

  Author: Sophia Richards

• Mistakes are the stepping stones to success, embrace them to reach new heights.

  Author: Samantha Miller

• Mistakes are proof that you are trying, especially when starting something new.

  Author: Harper Lee

• Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, so learn from them rather than regretting them.

  Author: Samantha Green

• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep

  Author: Scott Adams

• Success is not about getting things right the first time, but about learning from every mistake made along the way.

  Author: Emily Cole

• Success is not about getting everything right, but about learning from the things that go wrong.

  Author: Alexandria Johnson

• Success is not defined by the mistakes we make, but by how we learn from them.

  Author: Samantha Miller

• Success is not found in doing everything right, but in learning from everything wrong.

  Author: Samantha Stevens

• Yesterday's mistakes can become the wisdom of tomorrow when approached with humility and growth.

  Author: Sophia Rodriguez

• Each mistake is a lesson waiting to be learned, embrace them and grow stronger.

  Author: Samantha Lopez

• Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Author: Scott Adams

• Wisdom is the reward gained through the journey of mistakes and growth.

  Author: Serena Davis

• In every mistake lies a seed of opportunity waiting to be nurtured into growth.

  Author: Rachel Brown

• A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others

  Author: Sophia Thompson

• Our mistakes are often gifts in disguise, nudging us towards growth and self-discovery.

  Author: Sofia Nguyen

• In every mistake lies a lesson worth learning.

  Author: Maya Johnson

• To find true wisdom, one must first embrace the countless mistakes along the way.

  Author: Amelia Greene

• I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

  Author: Loretta Young

• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

  Author: Steven Wright

• A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Author: Frank Wright

• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Author: Frank Wright

• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

  Author: John Wooden

• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

  Author: Venus Williams

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  Author: Ted Williams

• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

  Author: Jack Welch

• I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

  Author: Arabella Weir

• I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

  Author: Len Wein

• You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

  Author: Ben Webster

• Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

  Author: Thomas Watson, Sr.

• To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

  Author: William Ward

• I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

  Author: Murray Walker

• Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.

  Author: Ian Walker

• Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

  Author: Claude Vorilhon

• Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

  Author: Jules Verne

• It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

  Author: Ville Valo

• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

  Author: Brenda Ueland

• 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 rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

  Author: Mark Udall

• My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

  Author: Janine Turner

• Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

  Author: Dale Turner

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  Author: Dale Turner

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

  Author: Dale Turner

• If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

  Author: Norman Thomas

• We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

  Author: Phyllis Theroux

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  Author: A. Taylor

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  Author: A. Taylor

• You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

  Author: Britney Spears

• Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  Author: George Soros

• The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

  Author: Liz Smith

• Every human being makes mistakes.

  Author: Ian Smith

• All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

  Author: Red Skelton

• Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

  Author: Sivananda

• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

  Author: Ally Sheedy

• We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

  Author: George Shaw

• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  Author: George Shaw

• What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

  Author: John Sculley

• An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

  Author: Ashley Scott

• In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

  Author: Dick Schaap

• Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Author: Virginia Satir

• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

  Author: Pete Sampras

• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  Author: John Ruskin

• If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

  Author: Darrell Royal

• 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 his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

  Author: Galen Rowell

• We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

  Author: Gene Roddenberry

• Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

  Author: Jake Roberts

• We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

  Author: Mickey Rivers

• A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

  Author: Alexandra Ripley

• I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

  Author: Molly Ringwald

• You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

  Author: Joely Richardson

• In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

  Author: William Pollard

• To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

  Author: Plutarch

• Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

  Author: Rick Pitino

• Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

  Author: Camille Pissarro

• If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Author: Mary Pickford

• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

  Author: Ross Perot

• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

  Author: John Peel

• We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

  Author: Norman Peale

• I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

  Author: Alexander Payne

• Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

  Author: Sarah Parker

• So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

  Author: Sarah Parker

• Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

  Author: David Packard

• And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

  Author: Jim Otto

• You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  Author: Adam Osborne

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  Author: Barbara Olson

• All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

  Author: Jamie Oliver

• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Author: Barack Obama

• The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

  Author: Greg Norman

• AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

  Author: Donald Norman

• We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

  Author: Larry Niven

• Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

  Author: Richard Needham

• People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

  Author: Holly Near

• When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

  Author: Holly Near

• Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

  Author: Holly Near

• If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

  Author: Holly Near

• I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

  Author: Bill Murray

• If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

  Author: George Muller

• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Author: Mary Moore

• We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

  Author: Lucy Montgomery

• Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

  Author: Lucy Montgomery

• In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

  Author: Bode Miller

• When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

  Author: Bode Miller

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  Author: Edna Millay

• I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

  Author: Tiffeny Milbrett

• I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.

  Author: Tiffeny Milbrett

• Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

  Author: Paul Meyer

• I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

  Author: Brian McKnight

• A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

  Author: John McEnroe

• A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  Author: John Maxwell

• Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

  Author: Robert Matsui

• I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

  Author: Kurt Masur

• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

  Author: Don Marquis

• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  Author: Patrick Marber

• One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

  Author: Herbie Mann

• 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 that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

  Author: Chuck Mangione

• Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."

  Author: Mako

• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

  Author: Lawrence Lovasik

• I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

  Author: Marie Louise

• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  Author: Zoe Lofgren

• Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  Author: Barry Levinson

• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

  Author: Carl Levin

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Author: Carl Levin

• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  Author: Carl Levin

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  Author: Sam Levenson

• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

  Author: James Larkin

• An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

  Author: Ring Lardner

• Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

  Author: Ann Landers

• There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

  Author: Robby Krieger

• The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

  Author: Philip Knight

• If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

  Author: Hildegard Knef

• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  Author: Bill Klem

• If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

  Author: Richard King

• I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  Author: Larry King

• The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

  Author: Bob Kerrey

• I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

  Author: Jean Kerr

• I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

  Author: Kim Kardashian

• I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

  Author: Paul Kane

• Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

  Author: Steve Kanaly

• People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  Author: Carl Jung

• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  Author: James Joyce

• A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  Author: James Joyce

• But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

  Author: Bill Joy

• Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

  Author: Nafisa Joseph

• Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

  Author: Jeffrey Jones

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  Author: E. Jones

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  Author: E. Jones

• The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

  Author: E. Jones

• OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

  Author: Craig Johnston

• I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

  Author: Jack Johnson

• I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

  Author: Billy Joel

• You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

  Author: Billy Joel

• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  Author: Steve Jobs

• I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

  Author: Joan Jett

• I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

  Author: Jim Jarmusch

• We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

  Author: Joseph Jackson

• So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

  Author: Steve Irwin

• I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

  Author: Daniel Inouye

• You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

  Author: Julio Iglesias

• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  Author: King Hussein

• Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

  Author: Lou Holtz

• If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

  Author: John Holt, Jr.

• Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

  Author: Conrad Hilton

• Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

  Author: Ken Hill

• The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

  Author: Cullen Hightower

• I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

  Author: Theodor Herzl

• You learn from your mistakes.

  Author: Thierry Henry

• I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Author: Jimi Hendrix

• We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

  Author: Lillian Hellman

• If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

  Author: Coleman Hawkins

• All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

  Author: Moss Hart

• The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

  Author: Sydney Harris

• We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

  Author: Terry Hands

• I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

  Author: Corey Haim

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  Author: Natalie Gulbis

• When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

  Author: Natalie Gulbis

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  Author: Walter Gropius

• The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

  Author: Lewis Grizzard

• I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

  Author: William Green

• There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

  Author: Bob Graham

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  Author: Al Gore

• I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

  Author: Alberto Gonzales

• Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

  Author: Vincent Gogh

• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

  Author: Vincent Gogh

• No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

  Author: William Gladstone

• No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

  Author: William Gladstone

• People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

  Author: Jerry Gillies

• One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

  Author: Alberto Fujimori

• I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

  Author: Daisy Fuentes

• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

  Author: James Froude

• Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

  Author: James Froude

• There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

  Author: Robert Fripp

• Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

  Author: John Frankenheimer

• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  Author: Alan Foster

• It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

  Author: Maureen Forrester

• I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

  Author: Shelby Foote

• Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

  Author: Jane Fonda

• Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

  Author: Carly Fiorina

• I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

  Author: Sarah Ferguson

• The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

  Author: Clifton Fadiman

• It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

  Author: Linda Evans

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Author: Ted Engstrom

• I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

  Author: Eminem

• Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

  Author: Joseph Ellis

• He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

  Author: Tryon Edwards

• I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

  Author: Gregg Easterbrook

• It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

  Author: Griffin Dunne

• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Author: Peter Drucker

• The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

  Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

• Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.

  Author: Elizabeth Dole

• We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.

  Author: Casper Dien

• I was shaped by my mistakes.

  Author: Janice Dickinson

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