Quotes About Screw Ups

#1. Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

Juan Williams

#2. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups ... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

#3. New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

Bill Maher

#4. I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

Lauren Beukes

#5. Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Tom Peters

#6. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

George Clooney

#7. Oh, Oh my fucking mother she screw ups everything!

Deyth Banger

#8. All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

J.J. Abrams

#9. That means if you want to become strong, you become predictable. You keep your word, know and then honor your commitments, mind the details, invest in daily spiritual input, assume rather than avoid responsibility, admit your mistakes, correct your screw-ups, and keep a healthy watch over yourself.

Anonymous

#10. I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

Kacey Musgraves

#11. From this irritating reality comes The First Law of Corporate Survival for ambitious CEOs who pile on leverage and run large and unfathomable derivatives books: Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that are required.

Warren Buffett

#12. Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Scott Weiss

#13. I screwed up guys, real big time; holy great grandmother of all screw-ups!

Satyen Nabar

#14. I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

Anne Lamott

#15. Some people screw up, and then some people are screw-ups.

Jay Crownover

#16. There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups.

Roxanne Snopek

#17. First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier.

Neal Shusterman

#18. With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen
if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

Stephen King

#19. Remember, changing someone's hang-ups is an easier task if stays in the realm of sex because the carrot at the end of this trip is - SEX! It's not so easy to change other aspects of a man's personality because the rewards aren't as apparent and you can't exactly screw the stupid out of someone.

Roberto Hogue

#20. You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

Kerri Walsh

#21. I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."

Connie Kalitta

#22. You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#23. It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

Laszlo Nemes

#24. Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

Bob Lemon

#25. I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Joe Perry

#26. I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

Amy Ruley

#27. No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

Will Ferrell

#28. You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who's still there.

Jeffree Star

#29. C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

Tom Christiansen

#30. No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

Will Ferrell

#31. It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.

Charlie Munger

#32. It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up
so it's no longer a screw up.

Robert Rodriguez

#33. You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#34. Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

Ann Coulter

#35. Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.

Vinod Khosla

#36. If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

Peter McWilliams

#37. A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

Joseph H. Greenberg

#38. In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

Tom Peters

#39. Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

David Walker

#40. I though I screwed everything up," I say.
He smiles. "You're only one person. In the whole universe. You can't screw everything up.

Caela Carter

#41. The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

Brene Brown

#42. I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

John Piper

#43. Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Angelo Donghia

#44. Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

Jimmy Wales

#45. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why Pixar's goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Lee Unkrich

#46. But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

Grace Paley

#47. If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.

Steve Martin

#48. Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass.

Dante Alighieri

#49. Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

David D. Burns

#51. When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play.

Bob Sanders

#52. The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

Seth Godin

#53. I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.

Cory Arcangel

#54. You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

Tony Robbins

#55. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.

Tim Fargo

#56. Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

Dennis Miller

#57. Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

Mark Thornton

#58. Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

Tim Ferriss

#59. Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

Roddy Piper

#60. They have dog food for constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good thing? Stay indoors and let 'em bloat!

David Letterman

#61. I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.

Christopher Vokes