I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia LaBeouf

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

We can afford almost any mistake once.
Joe E. Lewis

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert Hubbard

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
Neil Young

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
Mickey Rourke

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
Ani DiFranco

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
Sophia Loren

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
Charlie Sheen