Quotes About Screwing Up

#1. Enjoy things even when you're screwing up.

Keith Johnstone

#2. Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Matt Lauer

#3. I will learn by screwing up.

Greg Bear

#4. Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

Nick Vujicic

#5. The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

Roy F. Baumeister

#6. You have better luck than you think you do," Cian said firmly.
Turning back toward him, she said, "Yeah? Prove it?"
You found me."
Yeah, and awakening your inner vampire, scaring the shit out of your
girlfriend, and screwing up your life."
Then that's my bad luck," he corrected her.

Rhiannon Frater

#7. It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

Eugene Richards

#8. I had to decide in the next few seconds: Would I let my past keep screwing up my present and my future?

Jeri Smith-Ready

#9. For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about that in my quest to move forward.

Gwenda Bond

#10. Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

John Madden

#11. Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.

Dash Mihok

#13. When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

Markus Zusak

#14. Surely there was nothing more pathetic than screwing up your own suicide.

Michael Marshall

#15. I'd rather risk screwing up with you than not even try. - Under My Skin

J. Kenner

#16. The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

Guy Laliberte

#17. I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. "I ... must ... not ... look ... like ... a ... baboon's ... backside.

J.K. Rowling

#18. In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#19. Trouble was, everyone always made talking out a problem sound like it was so simple and solved everything, but actually doing it, and securing the desired outcome without screwing up, seemed about as easy as rowing upriver with a teaspoon.

Babette James

#20. I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I'm really excited about this part of my life, but I'm screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I've made, or this is something I've given up on.

Debora Spar

#21. I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

Natalie Cole

#22. There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best
or even a less bad
answer.

Claire Cross

#23. But I AM saying don't chase perfection for perfection's sake, or for anyone else's sake at all. If you strive for something, make sure it's for the right reasons. And if you fail, that will be a better lesson for you than any success you'll ever have. Because you learn a lot from screwing up.

Felicia Day

#24. I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by that merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#25. A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.

Joyce Maynard

#26. If you're worrying about the past, you've got a good chance of screwing up the future.

Howard A. Tullman

#27. People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Elise Andrew

#28. When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Bill Lee

#29. Screwing up one minute doesn't mean you can't be amazing the next. You just have to learn from your mistakes. Go in and try something different next time.

Catherine Gayle

#30. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Randy Pausch

#31. [W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up.

Kathryn Schulz

#32. If you're screwing up and people aren't saying anything, that means they have given up.

Jim Graham

#33. One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon] Johnson in Saigon. This book is about the inevitably of screwing up when a country takes on a war with so little understanding of the country they are fighting.

George Packer

#34. You have to take risks if you want to master a craft. Taking risks means screwing up. Show me someone who's never made a colossal mistake, and I'll show you someone who's never created a masterpiece. If

L.A. Witt

#35. Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.

Gail Simone

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

Shannon L. Alder

#37. Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

Randy Pausch

#38. I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

Tori Spelling

#39. I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.

Tom Petty

#40. But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.

Rebecca Scherm

#41. Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.

Mo Ibrahim

#42. As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

Kevin Allen

#43. Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up? That approach never encourages a creative response.

Ed Catmull

#44. Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

Patti Smith

#45. For God's sake" she panted. Glaring up at him with fury in those clear, yellow-green eyes. "Would you stop screwing around and fuck me already?

Christine Warren

#46. I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

Pat Conroy

#47. And he makes me think ... that it'll be okay. That I don't have to worry about screwing it up.

Rainbow Rowell

#48. I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.

Saul

#49. Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.

David Boaz

#50. Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

Michael Crichton

#51. You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

Felix Dennis

#52. It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Edward Norton

#53. The rabbit is one of the few animals that (de facto) enjoys screwing: after copulating it does a backward flip and drums on the ground. If it could light up a fag, it would no doubt do that too, and blow smoke rings into the sky.

Peter Zilahy

#54. If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

Adam Levin

#55. As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.

William Monahan

#56. It was almost as if my screwing everything up was beyond my control, destined, written in the stars.

Cyn Balog

#57. I never get tired of people telling me how important their job is as an excuse for screwing it up.

Christopher Farnsworth

#58. Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Jim Butcher

#59. I had no idea if I was doing the friend thing right or utterly screwing it up.

Gwenda Bond

#60. I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.

Rob Sheffield

#61. I'm no stranger to fucking up.

Kathleen Glasgow

#62. I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.

George Carlin

#63. Oh no. Maybe I'd gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking? Should I have waited for her to offer up details?

Gwenda Bond

#64. 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

#65. Well, you know what procrastination and masturbation have in common, don't you?" She waits a beat, then answers her own question. "When it comes right down to it, you only end up screwing yourself.

Amy Hatvany

#66. A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.

Cody McFadyen

#67. Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

Mike Huckabee

#68. She knew, even in marriage, if you advanced too far to please the other person it let them edge away and you ended up always laughing and fighting and screwing on their territory. Sometimes you had to stand your ground and make them come to you - just to keep the equilibrium.

Terry Hayes

#69. Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

Frederick Lenz

#70. You would die of boredom in my body." "No, I'd take that young thing out for a spin and liven things up a little." I roll my eyes. "I'm sure you would. You'd have me screwing my way through greater Atlanta." "Breakin' hearts and blowin' minds! Or blowin' something," she says with a devilish wink.

M. Leighton

#71. Putting his mouth close to her ear, he said, I'm going to ride you raw, baby, but you won't care. It's going to feel so good, all you'll be able to think about is getting me back inside you. Keeping me here, packed up tight and deep, screwing into you so hard you go hoarse from your screams ...

Rhyannon Byrd

#72. What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Bill Watterson