Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

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.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

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.

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

Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

I never make the same mistake twice. If you catch me slipping one time, good for you, but it ain't gonna happen again.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

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