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Famous Small Mistakes Quotes

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. - T. B. Joshua

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. — T. B. Joshua

Anyone can make an error. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Timothy Zahn

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. — Bryant H. McGill

Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody's perfect. — Japanese Proverbs

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing - Giacomo Casanova

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing — Giacomo Casanova

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will. — Harvey Mackay

Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery. - Josh Linkner

Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery. — Josh Linkner

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. — Confucius

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice. — Lee Iacocca

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. — Richard Bach

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice. — Allen Iverson

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. - Nikki Giovanni

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. — Nikki Giovanni

We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin. — Nikola Tesla

Short Small Mistakes Quotes

  • Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days. — Todd Carney
  • It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. — John Bradshaw
  • My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. — Beatrice Wood
  • Mistakes are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce
  • Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. — Jessica Savitch
  • A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. — Bob Dylan
  • Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. — Salvador Dali
  • Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. — Henry Ford
  • Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. — Bruce Lee
  • To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. — William Arthur Ward

Small Mistakes Image Quotes

Small mistakes quote The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Simple Mistakes Quotes

Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for. — Amos Tversky

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . . — Arthur Schopenhauer

Small mistakes quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also simple; or better: God, in whom we believe and in whom we trust, is an incomplex Being, as He is also simply love. — John of Kronstadt

In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another. — Bart D. Ehrman

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. — Ronald Reagan

Small mistakes quote Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. — Bertrand Russell

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. — Herman Kahn

What Is My Mistake Quotes

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be. — Joyce Meyer

When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see — India.Arie

I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display. — Yohji Yamamoto

Small mistakes quote No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone wh
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes. — Linda Evans

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. — Gary Neville

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes. — Richard Rogers

Small mistakes quote A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain. — Simon LeVay

What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes. — Swami Vivekananda

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do. — Paulo Coelho

Wrong Answer Quotes

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times! — Ruth Graham

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. — Thomas Pynchon

Small mistakes quote Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.
Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay

The best way to escape competition—to get away from the specter of competition, which is not just stressful and nerve-wracking but also will drive you to the wrong answer—is to be authentic to yourself. — Naval Ravikant

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. — Ravi Zacharias

Small mistakes quote Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey

It doesn’t matter if it is quick if it’s the wrong answer. — Michael Saylor

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. — Anthony Jay

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. — Antony Jay

When You Make A Mistake Quotes

People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold. — Billy Mills

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. — Steve Harvey

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. — Jules Feiffer

Small mistakes quote Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you. — Joel Osteen

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!" - Benjamin Zander

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!" — Benjamin Zander

Small mistakes quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. — Vladimir Horowitz

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident. — Ronald Reagan

It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus — Rick Riordan

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. — Dave Pelzer

Small Differences Quotes

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. — Dalai Lama

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else. — Misha Collins

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry

Small mistakes quote One small positive thought in the morning can change you whole day.
One small positive thought in the morning can change you whole day.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. — Albert Einstein

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World! — Martin Luther King, Jr.

In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences. — Moshe Feldenkrais

Small mistakes quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale. — William Carlos Williams

It was only when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome. — James Clear

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. — Marian Wright Edleman

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control. — Ronaldinho

Small Details Quotes

Don’t ignore the small things — the kite flies because of its tail. — American Proverbs

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. — Cary Grant

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events. — Jim Jarmusch

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them. — Valentino Garavani

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding. — Xavi

I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself. — Kristin Armstrong

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. — Lou Holtz

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life. — John Lubbock

Making Mistakes Quotes

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key. — Kendrick Lamar

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. — Bob Marley

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

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

Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up. — Artur Boruc

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten. — Tyga

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. — Ajahn Brahm

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. — Jane Heard

Small Changes Quotes

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history. — Mahatma Gandhi

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. — Muhammad Ali

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow. — Jane Jacobs

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs

One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. - Joubert Botha

One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Joubert Botha

We Make Mistakes Quotes

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist. — Stephen Hawking

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong! — Chuck Smith

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Bill Kaulitz

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. — Mel Brooks

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones. — Henry Cloud

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down. — Shawn Johnson

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load. — Malcolm X

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights. — Pete Carroll

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. — L.M. Montgomery

I Make Mistakes Quotes

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection - Drake

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection — Drake

I don`t make mistakes. I bury them. - The Undertaker

I don`t make mistakes. I bury them. — The Undertaker

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. — Sayings

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes. — Marilyn Monroe

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them. — Marcus Luttrell

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you. — Hermann Goring

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. - Ingvar Kamprad

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook

If I have to make a tackle then I have already made a mistake. — Paolo Maldini

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More Small Mistakes Quotes

When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. — James Clear

I think skiing nowadays is easier than when we were racing, but winning is maybe harder now, because there are so many top skiers. If you make one small mistake, it’s hard to win. — Ingemar Stenmark

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion — Henry B. Eyring

Trade small because thats when you are as bad as you are ever going to be. Learn from your mistakes. — Richard Dennis

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything. — William Rosenberg

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. — Witter Bynner

Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between. — Richard Carlson

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be. — Kirkpatrick Sale

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it. — Stephen Jay Gould

Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes. — Ronald Wright

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road. — Daymond John

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous. — Victor Hugo

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake. — William M. Daley

The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks. — Warren Buffett

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. — Henry James

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

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback. — David Baldacci

Greville Fane's French and Italian were droll; the imitative faculty had been denied her, and she had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. She knew it, but she didn't care; correctness was the virtue in the world that, like her heroes and heroines, she valued least. — Henry James

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes. — Dick Cheney

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. — Christopher Hitchens

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality. — Griffin Dunne

In the last couple of years before Chairman Mao's death he said that the "Cultural Revolution" had been wrong on two counts: one was "overthrowing all", and the other was waging a "full-scale civil war". These two counts alone show that the "Cultural Revolution" cannot be called correct. Chairman Mao's mistake was a political mistake, and not a small one. — Deng Xiaoping

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now. — Anne Applebaum

I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band. — Chris Cain

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. Now Africa is modernizing. In the next twenty years, Africa is modernizing economically, and one of two things is going to happen. Either Africa will be just like the rest of the world and it's say goodbye to wildlife. Or, we can learn from the mistakes made in the rest of the world. — Patrick Bergin

The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies. — Vinod Khosla

Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes. — Samael Aun Weor

Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly. — Dan Ariely

Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head. — Sharleen Spiteri

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them. — Carlos Slim

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life. — Dalai Lama

We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake. — Terri E Apter

Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity. — Nikita Khrushchev

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible. — Tom Peters

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it. — Andrew Greeley

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. — Alan S. Kesselheim

I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time. — Helen Simonson

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity. — Christopher Alexander

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors. — Helen Simonson

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here. — Ken Livingstone

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