Screw Up Quotes

#1. We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington

#2. Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

Daniel Radcliffe

#3. Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

Steve Coogan

#4. I'm a culture hero," he said. "We do the same shit gods do, we just screw up more and nobody worships us. They tell stories about us, but they tell the ones that make us look bad along with the ones where we came out fairly okay.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Greg Egan

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

Tom Christiansen

#7. When you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. But the fans don't know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake.

Jake Roberts

#8. I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.

Daniel Tosh

#9. [Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

Nora Roberts

#10. At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

Vince Gill

#11. It's a tough universe kid. Dirty. Vicious. What the Empire doesn't screw up directly the rest of us screw up in fear of, or anger at, the Empire.

Simon Goodson

#12. So you planned this? The whole time we were together, you were scheming some way to screw up royally so I'd leave you alone?"
"No, Luce," he said, grabbing my hand back. "So I'd leave you alone.

Nicole Williams

#13. It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

Susan Mallery

#14. Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

Iyanla Vanzant

#15. Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

Betty White

#16. I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

George Eads

#17. One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.

Jim Cummings

#18. People can be so annoying sometimes. With all their stupid opinions and hidden agendas. But dogs? Dogs don't have any agendas. They're as honest and open and devoted as you can get. And that's why they'll always cheer you up. They'll always love you. No matter how badly you screw up.

Jessica Brody

#19. It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

Mila Kunis

#20. Some time ago, the Luminatus, or the Great Death, who kept balance between light and darkness, ceased to be. Since then, Forces of Darkness have been trying to rise from below. You are all that stands between them and destruction of the collective soul of humanity. Try not to screw up.

Christopher Moore

#21. Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Gary Keller

#22. Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

Jamie Oliver

#23. 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

#24. I can let you in, Eva. I'm trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can't stand feeling like any moment I'm going to do or say something wrong and you're going to bolt.

Sylvia Day

#25. But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

Rick Yancey

#26. It just means that when you screw up," Remi added, "you don't lose your place in the family. You might get a reaming, might be punished, but you'll always have a home where you're loved and where you feel safe.

Nalini Singh

#27. Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

Scott Adams

#28. If you really screw up, send roses.

Letitia Baldrige

#29. Just 'cause you love someone doesn't mean you should stick around and screw up their life.

Dean Winchester

#30. I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

Susane Colasanti

#31. You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.

Mitch Gaylord

#32. Somewhere along the line, I'll screw up and hurt you," he said. "Everybody does. But that's not the point."
"What's the point?"
"The point is if you believe I would never do it on purpose - and if I believe the same of you. That's how you deal with stuff.

Erica Bauermeister

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

Amy Ruley

#34. Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Shawn Amos

#35. Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

Evan Williams

#36. I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

K.A. Applegate

#37. If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Richard Petty

#38. I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

Lisa McMann

#39. There is someone out there, watching us screw up and waiting for the day we come face to face and explain ourselves.

C.E. Dimond

#40. The road out there is long, to find the right people is like to find the people which will show how much times you have been right. All people remember when you screw up, but few remember when you are doing the stuff right,... the only thing which can help you is the quotes - so keep reading them!

Deyth Banger

#41. I really wanted something, giving myself permission to screw up wasn't an option

Tara Kelly

#42. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

#43. 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

#44. Psychopaths, skillful as they are at manipulating others, have trouble with emotional regulation and generally screw up at either extreme: theatrical histrionics or cold stoicism.

Jonathan Kellerman

#45. I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. And give me some room to screw up. I've never done this before. There's a learning curve.

Sylvia Day

#46. In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today?

Nicki Elson

#47. I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Clint Eastwood

#48. I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.

Karen M. McManus

#49. Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Dolly Parton

#50. With my track record, I'll probably be able to screw up all three branches of government in about a week and a half.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#51. It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Rosa Brooks

#52. Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.

Caroline George

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

Will Ferrell

#54. Humans weren't made to be perfect, Daniel. We were made to screw up, fuck up, and learn new things. We were made perfectly imperfect.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#55. It's not always going to be easy, and you will, without a doubt, screw up over and over again; but the next morning you'll wake up a new, changed person, and you'll try again. Be strong. Be brave. And, please, be good.

Tammy Blackwell

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

Jeffree Star

#57. If you are thinking that everything sucks, you'll end up where everything does. This is how people get caught in a downward spiral and screw up their whole lives by never recovering from one bad incident.

Doug "Ten" Rose

#58. If I bother you so much, why did you let me kiss you again in that hospital? Is the reason to screw up my head more, to see if you still have the knack for it? Because congratulations Nell, you've succeeded yet again.

LeeAnn Whitaker

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

David Walker

#60. To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation
head down, trying not to screw up, just going from one day to the next
that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and offering you a job. But the day comes.

Atul Gawande

#61. Tim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.

Tim Tebow

#62. 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

#63. There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

David Krumholtz

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.

Mitch Hedberg

#67. I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

Sigourney Weaver

#68. I can't promise you I won't ever screw up, but I can promise you that every single day I wake up, I will love you more then the day before.

T.K. Chapin

#69. I call it the "Fuck up, own up, and get up" policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn't make them worse.

Penelope Douglas

#70. It's horrible, and we humans, just as always, will be the cause. Screw up the water. Fuck up the air. Cut down the trees and shit on the world. We'll call it science. We'll call it sport.

Jonathan Maberry

#71. People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal' ...

Lauren Kate

#72. So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Ed Helms

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

Ann Coulter

#74. When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's just go, go, go. If you can't read the cue cards or miss your mark, you're just left to sort of screw up. So there's a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.

Megan Fox

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

Fuzzy Zoeller

#76. 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

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

Charlie Munger

#78. Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

Denis Leary

#79. I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Emma Watson

#80. I'm not perfect. And I don't have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it's okay if I still screw up.

Melissa Darnell

#81. We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Nicholas Sparks

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

Laszlo Nemes

#83. I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

Niki Burnham

#84. There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Brandon Thomas

#85. The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it."
Tone?'
The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow or fast, funny or sad. All these disgressions, they just screw up your story's sound. Stick to what happened.

Tim O'Brien

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

Fuzzy Zoeller

#87. 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

#88. We are team. We win and loose together. So, we'll screw up and get better together, too.

Cora Carmack

#89. I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you ... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

Kristin Hannah

#90. Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Neal Shusterman

#91. So please, in the name of John, Paul, George, and possibly Ringo, do not be afraid to screw up once in a while. Life can beat every creative impulse out of you and make you scared to embark in new directions. I say, embark away. (Doug French)

Heather B. Armstrong

#92. A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

Lisa Loeb

#93. But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

Keith Richards

#94. being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes and does what she can to not let them happen over and over.

Amy Hatvany

#95. If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Nicholas Sparks

#96. You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

Alfie Kohn

#97. We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Ilona Andrews

#98. To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password." - UNKNOWN

Kevin Behr

#99. Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just ... survive. Outlive me, please.

Tracy Letts

#100. So what is the best vegetable? Well, we all know that: it's the potato. The vegetable you can't screw up. You can throw a potato into a bonfire, run away from it - and, an hour later, it's turned into a meal. Try doing that with broccoli, or a trifle, and it will laugh in your face.

Caitlin Moran