If you call someone up on a mistake – if the drummer’s put an extra beat in a bar or something – you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right. – Steve Winwood
It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake. – Vincent D’Onofrio
There’s not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake. – Stewart Udall
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. – Wietse Venema
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. – Stephen Covey
I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted. – Stefan Edberg
The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: ‘I like anything you like.’ – Sherry Argov
I really started to forget things. That’s why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn’t remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn’t sure, and I didn’t want to make a mistake. – Terry Bradshaw
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill
I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown. – Ted Cruz
I don’t apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. – Woody Hayes
Those nations that say it’s a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they’re doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices. – Wole Soyinka
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. – Timothy Geithner
I still get a little nervous before performing. You don’t want to forget a lyric; you don’t want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause. – Tony Bennett
Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong. – Tamara Mellon
Before ‘Life of Pi,’ I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I just can’t see it as my cup of tea anymore. – Suraj Sharma
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control. – Wesley Schultz
There’s nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That’s the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn’t really mourn for that – it’s too disturbing, seems like a mistake. – Tom Reiss
I think when someone who’s known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that’s a mistake. – Steve Carell
I once went to a ‘Star Trek’ convention by mistake – I thought I was going to a ‘Doctor Who’ one. – Sylvester McCoy
Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I’m still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person. – Will Poulter
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice. – William J. Mayo
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
You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It’s a mistake to essentially collapse those two – they’re not the same. I don’t think you can achieve everything at once. – Sander Levin
With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way. – Sergei Lavrov
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set. – Vanna White
