Top 100 Make More Mistakes Quotes
#1. The bull's-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don't make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us.
Eric Weiner
#2. This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
Dan Rather
#3. You can't always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.
Auliq Ice
#4. If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
Trip Hawkins
#5. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
#6. If your thoughts have convinced you that you can never do anything right, you'll tend to make more mistakes than normal and have a high rate of failure.
Joyce Meyer
#7. Sometimes you just have to pick a direction and make mistakes. Then you use what you learn from your failure to pick new, better directions so you can make more mistakes and keep learning.
Matthew Quick
#8. But then again, I was pretty certain I'd make more mistakes, so I didn't dwell on the one I'd just made too long. This is another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: if you make a mistake, don't dwell on it too long, because you'll make more of them.
Brock Clarke
#9. Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should.
Alice Oseman
#11. I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
Thomas A. Edison
#12. There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
Bill Gates
#13. We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.
Kristina Adams
#14. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracian
#15. Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
Carl Honore
#16. If we are surrounded by flawless individuals, it can make our own mistakes seem magnified. And if a problem appears overlarge, it becomes more intimidating to attempt to overcome it.
John Wooden
#17. Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
Pete Hamill
#18. I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.
Tim Howard
#19. We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.
Frank Luntz
#20. I learn more when I make mistakes, so long as they don't kill me.
Pierce Brown
#21. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. In our youth, if we survive them, they're called learning experiences or teachable moments or some-such. And that which does not maim or kill us usually makes us stronger, albeit sometimes also sadder and more cynical.
Charles Stross
#22. When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?
Alexa Von Tobel
#23. The more I speak the more I make mistakes so. I speak less and listen more
Nicolas Kalinde
#24. I promise to be the one who makes your days brighter. When the rest of the world can't or won't see who you are, I will. I can't promise I won't make mistakes, but I can promise that you'll never doubt I love you more than my clumsy words can ever say. I love you, Nina.
K.M. Scott
#25. It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.
Po Bronson
#26. I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
Shooter Jennings
#27. Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
Orson Scott Card
#28. The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#29. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
Sydney J. Harris
#30. 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
#31. No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
Luc De Clapiers
#32. We all make mistakes, Carol. Sometimes they're more expensive than others. But I don't deserve to lose you,' he said, spreading his hands in appeal.
Val McDermid
#33. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire
#34. There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Ted Williams
#35. The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.
Ruud Gullit
#36. But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
Vincent Van Gogh
#37. We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
Jasper Fforde
#38. You've made mistakes, yes. And I have no doubt, just as anyone who lives and breathes, that you will make many more in your life. But it doesn't change who you are deep down inside.
Morgan Rhodes
#39. Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Neil Gaiman
#41. Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
Danica McKellar
#42. If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he's in with a shout of the Ballon d'Or. But when it's a defender who slips up, it's a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.
Andrea Pirlo
#43. Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
Twyla Tharp
#44. I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
Tahereh Mafi
#45. We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. As a new mother, you're so vulnerable and make mistakes all the time. I guess there's more pressure when you're in the public eye, but I'd never stand by and let anyone exploit my daughter.
Jessica Marais
#47. Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin
#48. By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#49. We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much more from failures and those who hate us, (we learn how to avoid the mistakes they made.)
Auliq Ice
#50. History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
Cressida Cowell
#51. OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
Craig Johnston
#52. You don't think your way into finding out who you are; you live your way into it. You make mistakes. You follow your passion. You take wrong turns. You set goals and chase dreams. You figure out what makes you laugh, and you do more of it. You learn what makes you cry, and you do less of it.
Mandy Hale
#53. I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.
Anthony Bourdain
#54. The fact that you're older than me doesn't mean you're smarter. All it means is that you've had time to make many more mistakes.
David Seller
#55. The more you talk ...
the more mistakes you're likely to make.
Lou Silluzio
#56. One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.
Robert Kiyosaki
#57. It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#58. The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.
Nalini Singh
#59. I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.
Warren Buffett
#60. I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.
Lindsay Lohan
#61. When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
John Wooden
#62. I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.
Jacob Hashimoto
#63. The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.
Marcelo Garcia
#64. If you never make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
If you make the same mistakes more than once, you're not paying attention.
Ben Delaney
#65. In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing
Dave Pelzer
#66. People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.
Shane Warne
#67. What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.
David Gregory
#68. We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
James Larkin
#69. It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture.
Tanay Pant
#70. In the beginning, yes I did go back ... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit
Lil' Kim
#71. I think you've got no choice but to suffer more. It was your job to save people's lives. You weren't allowed to make mistakes. But nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes at some point in our lives, no matter how hard we try. But every time we do make a mistake, we have to learn from it.
Minari Endou
#72. Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.
Alex Ferguson
#73. The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
Peter Drucker
#74. Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.
Curtis Jackson
#75. It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
-Hephaestus
Rick Riordan
#76. I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
Cynthia Voigt
#77. Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
Mike Michalowicz
#78. The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#79. Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
Guy Finley
#80. All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
Raekwon
#81. Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
Thanhha Lai
#82. As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.
Heather Headley
#83. There is a time when we make a lot of mistakes in life , we should not condemn ourselves because we also learn more lessons during those times.
Euginia Herlihy
#84. What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"
"Many," Skuduggery said.
Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."
"Or make brand-new ones.
Derek Landy
#85. The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.
Sarah Dessen
#86. Progress won't be a straight line but if you keep learning you will have more successes than failures, and the mistakes you make along the way will help you get to where you want to go.
Scott Berkun
#87. The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much. I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.
Paula Poundstone
#88. I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.
Janet Evanovich
#89. Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
Claire Cook
#90. Our pain and mistakes and faults are an integral part of us. They make our joy and successes and qualities all the more significant.
Jasinda Wilder
#91. And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
#92. Christian, non-Christian, we're going to miss the mark. We're going to make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes and get more fundamentally sound spiritually in dealing with those mistakes I think have a direct impact - not only on your spiritual life, but those around you.
Steve Alford
#94. While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.
Alexi Giannoulias
#95. As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.
Matt Blaze
#96. It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
Tom Verlaine
#97. It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#98. The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes - and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Tom Clancy
#99. Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
Val McDermid
#100. The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.
Robert Anthony
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