Top 1200 Great Mistakes Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

I'm making fewer mistakes as I get older.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

Nobody lives without making mistakes.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.

Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery.

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Mistakes will be made, make no mistake

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here

The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

Mistakes are normal; everyone makes them.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.

We learn from out mistakes like we have done.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].