Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes. – Ross Perot
Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question. – Robby Benson
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq. – Robert Byrd
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction. – Oprah Winfrey
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient. – Sam Walton
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past. – Rand Paul
I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn’t even be friends with – ever. – Rashida Jones
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made – and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism – is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You’re not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you’ll never eliminate all poverty. – Rudy Giuliani
I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes – I’m not that smart – so I usually learn by trial by fire. – Shia LaBeouf
I did some mistakes; I accept that – I always accept my mistakes. For sure, we are looking forward to improve, to deliver my best as always. – Pastor Maldonado
I’ve made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody’s ever made a choice for me. – Sandra Bullock
I think it’s important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious – which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences. – Robert Winston
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong. – Richard J. Needham
I think it’s great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That’s the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you. – Priyanka Chopra
We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn’t like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well. – Robby Krieger
One should never learn from one’s mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure. – Peter York
I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. – Ringo Starr
What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if you’re okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later. – Paul Schneider
I wouldn’t be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes. – Rob Lowe
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes. – Rebecca Stead
I’m happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together. – Pablo Sandoval
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. – Robert Green Ingersoll