Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.
Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'
For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Any experience you have, there are good parts of it and bad parts, and you have to learn from the bad parts and the mistakes that you've made.
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.
I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
