Top 1200 Good Mistake Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

A life without a dog is a mistake.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

Have the courage to make a mistake.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. [...] There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.

There's no cultural revolution by mistake.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure .

Never mistake movement for action

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

When you make a mistake, own up to it.

I'm paying for a mistake I made

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

I can sell a fight, make no mistake.

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

One mistake does not define you.

Don't mistake my tears for weakness.

A game is always won through a mistake.

I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

There is not a single cricketer who has not made a mistake.

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

Never mistake motion for action.

Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

Making a mistake is also an achievement.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

Never mistake motive for action.

Woman was God's second mistake.

I for one do not negotiate with Hamas and believe it is a mistake to do so.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

No one is in your life by mistake.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

It is not a mistake to want power.

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

Never mistake the power of influence

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

I'll be the first one to tell you if I made a mistake.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

Marriage is a really scary thing. I'm excited about it. I know it's not a mistake, it's the absolute right thing to do. I'm really happy about it. I really, really love my fiancee. We're good friends and I think it's going to work. But that's just the point - it's going to take work. It does make me feel vulnerable to be like, wow, I'm committed to this person for the rest of my life.

Never mistake activity for achievement.