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

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.

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.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

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 don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

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.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.