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.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.
The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won't last forever.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.
When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.
Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.
He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
I see the staff and crew on the set as my equals. When I make a mistake, they know they can call my attention or even tell me what to do.
Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.
And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.
I think it was a major mistake to revisit Title II.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.
