The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.
Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.
I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Make no mistake about it - Islam is just not another way to approach God.
A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.
