Quotes About Denying Your Mistakes

#1. Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Criss Jami

#2. He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he's close now. It's never been this close.

Chuck Wendig

#3. The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

Laurence Sterne

#4. Stop worrying where you're going. Move on. If you can know where you're going, you've gone. Just keep moving on.

Stephen Sondheim

#5. My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for there to be a [central authority] controlling the schools. They are in more than 100 countries, and there must be many different companies that have opened and run them.

Fethullah Gulen

#6. Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes.

Kimberly Karalius

#7. Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.

Rene Descartes

#8. Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#9. Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield

#10. The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

Rajneesh

#11. In Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone's name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village.

Amitav Ghosh

#12. Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Terry Eagleton

#13. It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Evelyn Waugh

#14. A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

Thomas Nashe

#15. If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

Carl Levin

#16. Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief.

Jade Jagger

#17. You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

John Spence

#18. More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Harold J. Smith

#19. Books do pretend ... but squeezed in between is even more that is true - without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Matthew Pearl