- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes Quotes
On mistakes made, owned, and left behind.
This collection focuses on mistakes as part of learning - practicing a new piece and inevitably getting parts of it wrong along the way. Related reading: Better.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Clarify
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
- Difficult Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren't tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it's with little seeming regret.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me, so he is less likely to make mistakes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we should learn from our mistakes.
- Nov 07, 2020