Words matter. These are the best Mistake Quotes from famous people such as Dan Savage, Frank Abagnale, David Gill, Richard Dawkins, Lucille Clifton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don’t look at signatures. They’re processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn’t been made.
Sometimes I think it’s possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it’s called the Bush Administration.
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
I made just about every mistake a person could make before God came into my heart. If some of those painful experiences can help someone avoid the same mistakes I made, then perhaps my heartache was not totally in vain.
Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity – that’s a mistake.
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn’t he? He just got everything right really.
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren’t.
You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.
I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese – big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I’m eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.
There’s loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, ‘Oh, she’s a one-hit wonder!’
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
It’s not whether you fall or make a mistake, it’s what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It’s not how many times you fall, it’s how many times you stand up.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn’t correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person – except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.
When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.
Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer’s home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.
I think it’s a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it’s a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can’t operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn’t come out of my house because my films didn’t do well. I lock myself in for months. I don’t talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It’s never about myself or my career alone.
You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
I think I made a mistake once… yeah… it was only once.
I try to create an environment where it’s okay to make a mistake, though it’s not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I’m challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don’t tell you how to get there and I don’t show you what to do, though I’ll ask leading questions.
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
I think we’re going to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 years as a big mistake.
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Getting married in four days was the biggest… mistake I’ve ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but… how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
You take an educated gamble. If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you’re not doing your job.
If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you aren’t trying hard enough.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Don’t be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they’re evil – I think it’s a terrible thing to do.
I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I’d made a ridiculous mistake – I’d forgotten to say ‘movie’ projector; I got a still one.
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that’s the biggest mistake men make on the first date. Just get to know me. Be my friend. Just kick it with me as if I was hanging with a homeboy. It shouldn’t be this awkward situation. It should be that we’re there, having a great time.
