Mistake

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality, if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

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.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

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.

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake.

I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

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.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

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.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

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.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake and have to remove it all! I'd rather play up my eyes with winged eyeliner.

Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.

Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.

When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.

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.'

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do - hopefully we all have that in us.

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.

A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

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.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

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.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

It is very rare that he makes a mistake, and I feel just privileged to have done what I have with him. There will never be another Valegro.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.

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.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

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.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

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.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

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.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake, it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

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.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake, the wrong time to raise taxes.

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Never get married in college, it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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.

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

Sovereignty is not just at the national level, that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

A mistake a lot of girls make is that they work out but don't eat enough. If you're not eating enough, all the work outs are doing, it's not going to show.

Never mistake motion for action.

The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin.

While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Once you make a mistake, it's kind of in your head what you need to do and what exactly is going on.

Once you make that first mistake, it kind of clears up everything, and everything can come to you.

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 really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.

Make no mistake: we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose.

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.

The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America, we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

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.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

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.

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

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 always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients.

It is not a mistake to want power.

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.