Missteps Quotes

Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.

The genius of you Americans is that you never made clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

I've spent my life making blunders.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed advantage to see clearly missteps that were less clear at the time of events.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.

Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.

My constituents want me to be outspoken - it's part of the reason they elected me - and the inevitable side effect of being outspoken is that, occasionally, you put your foot in your mouth.

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

We made some mistakes, but we made some great strides too. Certainly we changed the way that record labels looked at women.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

I've blundered my way through life.

In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.