Mistakes Quotes
Mistake Quotes - Quotes About Mistakes
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"Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes." - Steven Wright
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation for the editor. - Ring Lardner
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. - Red Skelton
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Boh
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.- William Randolph Hearst
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.- Franklin P. Jones
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.- Henry Kissinger
I don't want to make the wrong mistake.- "Yogi" Berra
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.- Rudyard Kipling
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.- George Gordon Byron
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.- Marva Collins
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.- Merle Meacham
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.- William Mayo
Never mistake endurance for hospitality.- Unknown
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.- Anton Chekhov
People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.- Peter Drucker
She had an unequaled gift. . . of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.- Henry James, Jr.
That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.- Sam Snead
The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advice his client to plant vines.- Frank Lloyd Wright
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.- Herbert Prochnow
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.- Dean Acheson
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.- Fred Astaire
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other way.- Judith Martin
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting.- Buddha
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
When a bureaucrat makes a mistake and continues to make it, it usually becomes the new policy.- James H. Boren
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. - Lewis Thomas
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. - Leon Trotsky
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores. - Unknown