It Only Takes One Mistake Quotes

#1. It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

Sara Genn

#3. It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

A.C. Grayling

#4. It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

Chaz Bundick

#5. I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

Charles Dickens

#6. Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

Georges Bataille

#7. You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

Billy Joel

#8. I will live to see tomorrow's sunset. Make no mistake. I swear. I will live to see as many sunsets as it takes. And I will kill you. With my bare hands.

Renee Ahdieh

#9. Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Shelagh Delaney

#10. Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.

Bill Crawford

#11. Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Stross

#12. If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn't it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!

Dada Bhagwan

#13. For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, Ill show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you cannot live it For the things that Ive seen have been too damn explicit.

Kid Cudi

#14. An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

Frank Wilczek

#15. Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.

Robert Cheeke

#16. But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

Diana Wynne Jones

#17. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#18. Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Voltaire

#19. What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

Johan Cruijff

#21. Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Frank Herbert

#22. Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

C.S. Lewis

#23. That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Michael Robotham

#24. You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.

Billy Joel

#25. The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.

MaryElizabeth Williams

#26. I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Terry Pratchett

#27. To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

Walt Disney

#28. Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the
only cause that you can't die for.

Leonard Orr

#29. Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

#30. Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.

Geoff Johns

#31. It is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#32. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates