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Making A Mistake Quotes

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
- Jodi Picoult

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon
- Nick Bantock

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
- Albert Einstein

Do you think we're making a mistake?" snapped the Bishop.
"Not at all," said Dom Cristao. "I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness."
"Fortunately," said the Bishop, "humankind isn't the judge that matters. And now I intend to pray for this boy, since medical science has obviously reached the boundary of its competence.
- Orson Scott Card

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Anton Chekhov

You have seen trouble too, Sarah. You are making a mistake if you think it is unusual. I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
- Chris Cleave

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
- Al Damato

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
- Meister Eckhart

As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.
- Clifton Paul Fadiman

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
- Bridget Fonda

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
- Daniel Greenberg

She stopped typing. If she'd been using pen and paper, she would have screwed the paper up in disgust, but there wasn't a satisfying equivalent with email, seeing as everything was designed to stop you making a mistake. She needed a fuck-it key, something that made a satisfying ka-boom noise when you thumped it.
- Nick Hornby

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
- Jack Kemp

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
- E L Konigsburg

whatever I decide, I might be making a mistake. But if I'm going to make a mistake I want it to be passionate
- Nina Lacour

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.
- Lawrence G Lovasik

I think you're making a mistake," she whispered. "You don't need to go that party to meet a guy, you've got one that's crazy about you right here," she said, leaving me alone.
- Jamie Mcguire

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
- Tiffeny Milbrett

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
- Alain Prost

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
- Ignazio Silone

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
- James Q Wilson

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