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Mistake Quotes


"But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it."



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


"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."


"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."


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


"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake."


"I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative."


"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."


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


"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."


"Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake."


"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."


"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."


"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."


"Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media."


"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."


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


"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear."


"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."


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


"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."


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