Quotes about Mistake

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.

The problem comes when we mistake the vessel for the treasure, for the treasure is the life and power of Jesus Christ.

What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

My friends, I wish with all my heart that you do not make the same mistake. The next time you are suffering, if this suffering was caused by the person you love most in the world, have recourse to right action and say the fourth mantra: "Dear one, I am suffering deeply. I need you to help me to get out of this suffering. I need you to explain this to me." This is the language of true love.

as soon as you think of yourself as teaching contemplation to others, you make another mistake. No one teaches contemplation except God, who gives it. The best you can do is write something that will serve as an occasion for someone else to realize what God wants of him.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.