Quotes by Mistake No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Henry Petroski mistakesuccessart It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Henry Moore mistakejobsart I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. Henry A. Kissinger pagesmistakebook But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. Henry Parry Liddon mistakemaychrist It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke mistakemenart All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. Henry James gratitudemattermistake success is 99% failure Henry Ford failuremistakesuccess She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. Henry James mistakeopportunityhands An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Henri Frederic Amiel truthmistakefunny I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. Henry Rollins honestmademistake Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling. Henry Winter mistakefootballsoccer To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken mistakelovefunny Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. Haruki Murakami strangerjudgingmistake Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value. Henry Ford things-in-lifelife-ismistake History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility. George W. Bush responsibilityjudgingmistake It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. Herbert J. Muller mistakemenpast The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned. Herbert Hoover doctorsmistakemen Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes. Herbert W. Armstrong mosesscarymistake A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. Herbert V. Prochnow mistakeinspirationalknowledge One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you. Herbie Mann recordsmistakeneeds«115116117118119120121122123124125»
