Pastoral Resources

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

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.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

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

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

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.