Top 1200 Big Mistake Quotes & Sayings

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

Bute coming over here is a big mistake.

Marrying early was a very big mistake. Everyone warned me but I felt I was in love and ignored their advice. I had to pay the price for my silly mistake when I had to compromise on my career.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Yes, I feel doing 'Mujhse Shaadi Karoge' was a big mistake.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

I know I have a lot of fans, and it's a big mistake try to please everybody.

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn't recognize it directly. I don't think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They'll be better for it.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

You're making a big mistake if you think that you can beat me.

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.

To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

The bad press started to play a big part in how people perceived me, and I started playing on that too, which was a big mistake.

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

I think the biggest mistake - I was always a big fan of Cary Grant, and he asked me to do a movie with him, playing the second lead, and I didn't do it. And to this day, I can't remember why. But I could've said I worked with Cary Grant, but I turned him down. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.

How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.

I think we're going to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 years as a big mistake.

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

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

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one