Top 1200 What Did I Do Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.

I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.

I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.

Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?” said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. “You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then!

So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did a lot of things right, but we also did a lot of things wrong at that company. And so I've really learned focus is everything.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.

Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.

A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don't leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn't have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

You have to know what you did wrong, sure, but ask yourself: why? Improve it, move on. You have to live with pressure.

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.

It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

You know what Bill Cosby did wrong? He started criticizing young black men.

Not that I ever did anything wrong. I was just aggressive. That's the way I am in my life.

Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people gave to my children. Wrong my kids, you wrong me. And my hurt qualifies me to forgive you. But only for the pain you caused me when you wounded them. My children alone are qualified to forgive you for what you did to them.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we miss the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple? It wasn't because we had stopped collected metadata it was because, I think, as someone who comes from the technology world, we were using the wrong algorithms.

Why on Earth would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I'm wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

Eddie had the perfect template of what not to do. His big brother did all the wrong things.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

I too did not want to take the path of a warrior. I believed that all that work was for nothing, and since we are all going to die what difference would it make to be a warrior? I was wrong. But I had to find that out for myself. Whenever you do realize that you are wrong, and that it certainly makes a world of difference, you can say that you are convinced. And then you can proceed by yourself. Any by yourself you may even become a man of knowledge

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.

As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.