The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there. – John Dingell
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you’re not making a mistake and you’re not a fool. And this means you have to have faith. – Julia Cameron
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people. – Jay Inslee
The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don’t. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire. – Judith Martin
In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves. – Jon Oringer
Use your development time to brief analysts and industry press. Use these influencers as your eyes and ears to let you know what else is being developed by competitors so that you can be the first to market, and don’t make the mistake of launching an also-ran product. – Jay Samit
We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it’s totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts. – Jaromir Jagr
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had? – Henry James
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. – James Q. Wilson
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two. – James Gray
People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we’ll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer. – Jamie Dimon
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, – that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, – being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. – James Longstreet
There’s something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other… And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it’s all real! – Isaac Hayes
I don’t support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again. – Jesse Ventura
I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in. – Hosni Mubarak
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early ’90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software. – Jack Dangermond
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much. – Joan Collins
You take an educated gamble. If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you’re not doing your job. – James Sinegal
Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone. – John Doolittle
Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It’s a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person. It’s often something that isn’t rectified for a long period of time. – Ivanka Trump
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand. – James Payn
