Pastoral Resources

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.