I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.
I work for a place that’s been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you’re hurting your company as well.
To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I’m writing is real.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
My salary situation at ‘Morning Joe’ wasn’t right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I’d made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
It’s a grave mistake in publishing, whether you’re talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.
White Americans today don’t know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that’s where they made their mistake… they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
I consider Bush’s decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
I’m a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig’s 007. ‘Empire’ and ‘Hot Dog’ had great reviews, and finally he’s been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it’s awful.
In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.
The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don’t. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.
So to answer your question, I’m not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
While many of Mr. Obama’s ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.
You hear people say, ‘We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.’ It’s full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!
And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn’t know they were going to take my job away. I didn’t know they were going to take collective bargaining away.
Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
One mistake and all this attention may just disappear one fine day. So I prefer to remain grounded.
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I’m costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom. I like it when people are open and are willing to let you do your work.
Conceptually, I am open to mistakes – errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: ‘Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn’t know about this.’
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don’t know. You can make up anything on the radio.
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don’t regret he played for that period.
I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I’m able to then go, ‘Oh, okay, let’s do this again.’
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.
When you’re the object of everyone’s affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don’t have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you’re not making a mistake and you’re not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.
Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake.
With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers’ – not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
I have said many times that it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. equity markets because it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. economy.
It is worse than immoral, it’s a mistake.
It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
I’ve always had a problem with people who couldn’t tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they’re wrong.
It’s always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn’t go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
I really don’t think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn’t learn from it.
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
I think the idea that you can go this alone is – was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
Mickey – the smallest husband I ever had and the biggest mistake I ever made – well, that year, it was.
Once you get past 100, it is all about not making a mistake.
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance… everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don’t know.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Goals often come from a mistake much further up the field, yet the analysis and blame will always be on the defence.
Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman’s closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you’re 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it’s very easy to make a mistake with shorts.
I don’t think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it’s a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can’t afford the ones we’ve got today. We’ve got to stop this culture of government dependence.
I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.
The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they’re profound or they’re deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn’t have records.
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
The biggest mistake most people make when it comes to listening is they’re so focused on what they’re going to say next or how what the other person is saying is going to affect them that they fail to hear what’s being said.
