#mistakes

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it. ↗

— Hildegard Knef

#good #help #make #middling #mistakes

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#learn #mistakes #must #past #past mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ↗

— Philip Knight

#few #making #many #mistakes #too

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#great #had #made #many #mistakes

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#live #made #make #mistakes #often

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#easily #making #making mistakes #me #mistakes

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

The Mistake With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse And every nuance of your hypocrisy Towards yourself, and every excuse Stands solidly on the perspective lines And there is perfect visibility. What an enlightenment. The colonnade Rolls past on either side. You needn't move. The statues of your errors brush your sleeve. You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed. And this dismay at this, this big mistake Is made worse by the sight of all those who Knew all along where these mistakes would lead — Those frozen friends who watched the crisis break. Why didn't they say? Oh, but they did indeed — Said with a murmur when the time was wrong Or by a mild refusal to assent Or told you plainly but you would not heed. Yes, you can hear them now. It hurts. It's worse Than any sneer from any enemy. Take this dismay. Lay claim to this mistake. Look straight along the lines of this reverse. ↗

— James Fenton

#hindsight #mistakes #life

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? ↗

— Maya Angelou

#life #mistakes #right #life

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#looking-back #punishments #remorse #undo-past-mistakes #undone