Quotes of: Making-mistakes Keyword

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Lexicon

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

M: Writings '67-'72

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going!

Mistakes Happen: An Historical Guide to Overcoming Adversity

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

The Simple Truth

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Seeker After Truth

Your mistakes... Should always guide you to a better life And Not define you to help keep you in the past

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

Say What You Will

Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you’ll never truly understand the awakening of your heart’s desires.

One Less. One More.

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

One Long Thread

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

I gave my girlfriend a gallon of my semen and a minivan and told her to fill it up with kids. Big mistake! I should have given her a bus.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

Wintersmith

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daphne Guinness

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.

City of Bones