Biggest Mistakes Quotes

#1. I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.

Andy Andrews

#3. One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

Oprah Winfrey

#4. One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

Kate Forsyth

#5. We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.

Bryant McGill

#6. One of the biggest mistakes women do is, they think that One day 'he' will realize, apologize and come back..

Himmilicious

#7. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?

Robert Pattinson

#8. Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.

Steve Squyres

#9. Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Anthony De Mello

#10. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

Mark Cuban

#11. One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Charlotte Beers

#12. Biggest mistakes in life is not to do one.
Biggest risk in life is afraid to take one.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Many times what we see as our biggest mistakes and failures can become what God uses the most. However,

Shelley Hitz

#14. One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Galen Rowell

#15. The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Cindy Gallop

#16. Sometimes our biggest mistakes give us our greatest reward.

Kristin Billerbeck

#17. The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.

Kiefer Sutherland

#18. I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

John Jay Hooker

#19. People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

Noah Weinberg

#20. If we could choose who we love, our love lives would be much simpler. We could avoid heart ache and heart break. But is that what we want or what we need? As individuals we grow and learn by our mistakes, and some of the biggest mistakes in life revolve around the heart

Tatum Wells

#21. One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.

Park Dietz

#22. The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Sidney Blumenthal

#23. Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

Charlie Munger

#24. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

Susan Blackmore

#25. I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.

Gurbaksh Chahal

#26. Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

Helen Varney

#27. The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#28. To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

Glenda Bailey

#29. One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.

Aaron Ross

#30. I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.

Andrew Zimbalist

#31. In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

Edgar H Schein

#32. One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

Meg Cabot

#33. The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

Joey Harrington

#34. Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.

Louise Candlish

#35. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Marianne Williamson

#36. The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

#37. The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity ... What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Susan Cain

#38. A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

Steve McConnell

#39. My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

Kemmons Wilson

#40. As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Richard Rogers

#41. Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#42. [ ... ] the biggest failures typically come before the biggest breakthroughs. That no matter what, I should never get discouraged. Learn from my mistakes and all will be well.

Joelle Charbonneau

#43. The biggest mistake that I see people with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) making is believing that all electromagnetic fields are harmful.

Steven Magee

#44. To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

#45. Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

Nicole Kidman

#46. One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Linda Dillow

#47. He only sound was of the crickets, and the glittering speckled of stars on the night sky as witness of her biggest mistake, the night when it changed her life forever.

Diyar Harraz

#48. Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

Rudy Giuliani

#49. The propensity to dwell on failure and mistakes, and an inability to shut out the outside world are, in his mind, the biggest psychological impediments for his female players, and they directly affect performance and confidence on the court.

Katty Kay

#50. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm Forbes

#51. One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm.

Scott Hall

#52. If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.

Shay Given

#53. The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

David Malpass

#54. The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win ... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

Hugh Douglas

#55. The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.

Donatella Versace

#56. I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

Jacob Hashimoto

#57. We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

Nigel Farage

#58. The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer