I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
Gene Tierney

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
Ethel Merman

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
Jessica Savitch

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
Charles Schumer

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
Holly Near

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Clifton Fadiman

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
Jean Kerr

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
Loretta Young

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
Tom Verlaine

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
Boris Becker

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
Gregg Easterbrook

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Fred Thompson

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
Boris Yeltsin

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
Gavin Bryars

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
Kurt Masur