Mistake Quotes

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren’t intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It’s a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I’m going to try to beat her. And I’ll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you’ve made, let’s be fair, that means you’ve got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you’ve done. It’s okay to say, “God, I wish I’d done this; yeah, but I did do that.” Then it kind of balances out.

With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.