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.
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.
A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.
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.
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
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.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
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.
During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.
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.
