I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
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.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
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.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.
I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes ‘empowered’ for ‘strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
