Screw Up Quotes

#1. You're never too old for me to look out for you and to make sure that every guy knows that if he tries to screw you over, I will shoot him."
"Okay," I say, looking up at Asher. "If you screw me over, my dad will shoot you.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#2. Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

Mehmet Okur

#4. I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

Charles Barkley

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

Brene Brown

#6. Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

Richard King

#7. Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Jake Roberts

#8. My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.

Josh Radnor

#9. in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox

Frank W. Abagnale

#10. To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Henry Spencer

#11. Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up?

Jay Leno

#12. And, lastly, there's a small pack of wide-eyed innocents in awe of my Beacon-ness who follow me around expecting me to perform a miracle any minute. Sometimes I screw up my face like I'm trying. Or constipated.

Eliza Crewe

#13. It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

Charles R. Schwab

#14. 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

#15. I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Alan Ruck

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

Angelo Donghia

#17. Disbelief. Pain. Resolve. Christ, she was exquisite. He was going to screw her ten different ways until she couldn't stand up, and then send her home to wipe the floor with that man.

Kitty French

#18. Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

Ellen DeGeneres

#19. I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

Mike Shinoda

#20. Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Dennis McKenna

#21. It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

E. Nesbit

#22. Horseshit," Shame said cheerfully. "He can dispossess you and die. Pretty easy, really. Most people die the right way the first time. You'd think a genius like him wouldn't screw it up so badly.

Devon Monk

#23. You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Jake Roberts

#24. Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Tom Hanks

#25. As for my constant low-grade state of confusion - the Blur is a term that seems to be sticking - let me break it into three categories: (1) things I should know but never learned, (2) things I choose not to know, and (3) things I know but totally screw up.

Maria Semple

#26. I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

Joe Nichols

#27. he asks me, as if Ruth's become invisible. That's fucked up but that's what happens to women. We grow up into ghosts. No one wants to screw Ruth anymore so she's invisible.

Samantha Hunt

#28. It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Bray

#29. You really know how to screw up a perfect night, don't you?"
"You thought it was perfect, huh? Does that mean you had a good time?"
"I always do when I'm with you.

Jamie McGuire

#30. 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

#31. The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

Josh Kaufman

#32. I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

Steven Pressfield

#33. The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Patrick Swayze

#34. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

George Carlin

#35. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up.

Daniel Handler

#36. We don't screw up by saying yes to the wrong things; we screw up by letting all the floats in the parade pass us by and never jumping on one of them for a ride to the end.

Annie F. Downs

#37. I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

Anna Paquin

#38. I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'

Tim Tebow

#39. This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

Paul Castellano

#40. With a lump forming in his throat, he thought
about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than
anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up
like his dad when it came to love and marriage.

Michelle Sutton

#41. One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

Stephen Burt

#42. Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

Stephanie Klein

#43. It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do ...

Jim Harbaugh

#44. THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me - not forever, but periodically.

Janet Evanovich

#45. See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn't screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

Kim Harrison

#46. We moved in silence for a moment and I said, "How did we screw this all up so badly, John?"
He shook his head. "We always find a way.

David Wong

#47. When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

Ben Horowitz

#48. For the love of God. Fight for what you want.Get hurt. Cry, Scream. Screw up. Fall in fucking love.But do it brcause you're doing what you wanted to, not because someone else told you it's what you're supposed to do.

Kenzie Cade

#49. Gwen was determined to screw it up, but had not yet seen how.

Daniel Handler

#50. 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

#51. So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca

Lee Iacocca

#52. Okay... now I am going to try to ignore you... I gonna try to screw you up...

Deyth Banger

#53. I'd be doing it to screw the literary world. Those bastards all huddle in their gloomy cave and kiss each other's asses, and lick each other's wounds, and trip each other up, all the while spewing this pompous crap about the mission of literature.

Haruki Murakami

#54. You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

David D. Burns

#55. One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

Bob Newhart

#56. This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.

Michael Moschen

#57. Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome.

Stuart Firestein

#58. If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

Pete Rose

#59. But it's not really the love that I envy, it's the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can't not love you.

Cassia Leo

#60. Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

Neal Shusterman

#61. I would rather screw up trying my best.

Alexandra

#62. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

Viola Davis

#63. I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No ... ' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

America Ferrera

#64. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

Heather Demetrios

#65. Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up - it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

Ed Catmull

#66. And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.

Jennifer Niven

#67. You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#68. To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Kate Baldwin

#69. Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

Johnny Miller

#70. Screw the daring tough guy image, what happened with us broke me.

Steph Campbell

#71. Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.

Neal Boortz

#72. I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

Kirstie Alley

#73. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

Regina Brett

#74. Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

Danny DeVito

#75. Where is the bane of my existence?"
"In the shower, freshening up."
Damn it all to hell. "Oh God, who did Ascanio screw now?"
"No, no, he's covered in blood."
"Oh good." Wait a minute. "The kid is covered in blood and we're relieved. There is something wrong with us.

Ilona Andrews

#76. You've got to understand , Angel, a man like me looks at a women like you and it's inevitable thatIm going to screw things up .

Bella Andre

#77. Many intelligent people, when about to write ... , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#78. Guess what, love, you will [screw up]. So will he. It's what you do with it once you've screwed up that matters.

Kimberly Lauren

#79. Screw the rules. Make up your own.

Nina DiSesa

#80. Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?

Carrot Top

#81. You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

Harold Ramis

#82. How could I feel something when... I always get screw up... good people get killed and bad people just make suicides.

Deyth Banger

#83. I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

Al Yankovic

#84. Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone.

Jonathan Tropper

#85. Don't be afraid to screw up ! ... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Robben Ford

#86. I just screw up and fake it up.

Deyth Banger

#87. Lust? Who's talking about lust? You want to screw her, right? So that's your objective. All you need now is deployment of the appropriate tactics to manoeuvre her into an advantageous position and then secure your conquest. Then it's just a question of mopping up.

Simon Scarrow

#88. 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

#89. A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Earl Weaver

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

Steve Martin

#91. If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

Edwin Catmull

#92. Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole 'Screw you, I'm awesome for what I do' attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.

Mary Lambert

#93. And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

Henry Rollins

#94. Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

Robert M. Pirsig

#95. We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Jay Crownover

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

Dante Alighieri

#98. Screw nightmares. I was waking up.

Kody Keplinger

#99. It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

Jeff Bridges

#100. You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

Dave Barry