It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science with new ingenious devices and techniques can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes but thanks to those mistakes I've learned.

Of course there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I along with many other world leaders have embraced that goal and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies continual growth constant change the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

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.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes married men are the best binders in the hedge of the commonwealth.

I'm human I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

To help yourself you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake learn from it pick yourself up and move on.

A failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I'm selfish impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes I'm out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Sometimes when you innovate you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.