Pastoral Resources

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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.

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

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.