Best Biggest Mistake Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

People Thinking Years Long Made Bigs Lasts Term Interesting Mistake Company Too Much Bases Excited Long Term Native Big Things Mobile Introspective Apps Betting Biggest Mistake Androids Ios

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.”

Thinking Giving Mistake Giving Up Biggest Mistake

Author:John Kremer

“I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.”

World Want Persons Made Whole Mistake Regret Right Now Whole World Plenty Trust Me Don't Regret Biggest Mistake

Author:Britney Spears

“I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" it's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their fucking world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.”

Thinking World Stories Mistake This World Masters Cooking Creator Boring Working It Dump Dungeons Biggest Mistake

Author:Rick Remender

“When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.”

Years May Has Beens Made Lasts Fun Realizing Interesting Mistake Half Things To Do Smoking Resolution Interesting Things Cigar Biggest Mistake Smoking Cigars

Author:David Letterman

“The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.”

People Giving Dream Given Mistake Listening Giving Up Given Up Biggest Mistake

Author:Umair Haque

“The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.”

Ifs Made Mistake Overwhelmed Slow Down Biggest Mistake

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.”

Reason Wanted Decision Mistake Responsible Being Responsible Biggest Mistake

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.”

People Book Ends Play Mistake Creativity Wings Assuming Backgrounds Storytelling Muse Feathers Biggest Mistake

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.”

Looks Lying Mistake Steps Entrepreneur Competitors Biggest Mistake

Author:Mark Cuban

“My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.”

Thinking Want Trying Helping Mistake Procrastinating Trying To Change Biggest Mistake

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.”

People Ifs Littles Made Stories Shows Film Stuff Mistake Cameras Scripts Producers Little Things Location Wardrobe Labs Concentrating Biggest Mistake

Author:Shane Carruth

“I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.”

Thinking Needs Writing Stories Grows Rooms Mistake Plans Evolve Initials Biggest Mistake

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.”

Believe Littles Moments Bigs Seems Parent Deals Mistake Guilty Believe In Me Day To Day Big Deal Biggest Mistake Inconsequential

Author:Andy Andrews

“I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Able Next Sound Mistake Produce Personality Copies Biggest Mistake Broadcasters

Author:Joe Bowen

“The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.”

Made Mistake Cost Assuming Enjoyment Biggest Mistake

Author:John Mayer

“As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.”

Thinking Artist Mistake Vote Making Mistakes Being Afraid Biggest Mistake

Author:Richard Rogers

“Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.”

Way Has Beens Mistake Careers Thank God Really Happy Biggest Mistake

Author:Leslie Mann

“Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.”

Ifs Feels Film Actors Views Mistake Like You Movie Biggest Mistake

Author:Ang Lee

“The biggest mistake I see people make is they are not on the right program. You should be circuit training and performing cardio 4-6 days a week (depending on time).”

People Should Mistake Week Training Program Performing Circuits Biggest Mistake Cardio Circuit Training

Author:Scott Herman

“The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.”

Life Is Mistake Making Mistakes Biggest Mistake

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Made Mistake Baseball Abandon Miami Vacant Biggest Mistake Mlb

Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.”

Knows Heart Made Mistake My Heart Instinct Being True Ignored Biggest Mistake

Author:Glenda Bailey

“One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.”

Enough Mistake Friendly Biggest Mistake

Author:Charlotte Beers

“Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.”

Ifs Looks Children Made Ideas Care Kids Felt Mistake Bed Ill Good Ideas Small Child Hangover Biggest Mistake

Author:Sharleen Spiteri

“The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.”

“Learn to think and judge for yourself, responsibly. Don't accept everything without criticism and as absolutely true, everything which is brought to your attention. Learn from life. The biggest mistake of my life was that I believed everything faithfully which came from the top, and I didn't dare to have the least bit of doubt about the truth of that which was presented to me. Walk through life with your eyes open. Don't become one-sided; examine the pros and cons in all matters.”

Thinking Matter Eye Bits Walks Attention Mistake Accepting Doubt Judging Criticism Dare Biggest Mistake One Sided Pros And Cons

Author:Rudolf Hoss

“The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known.”

Wells Mistake Known Advertising Well Known Biggest Mistake

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Certain Wish Water Answers Views Mistake Scientist Data Mars Biggest Mistake

Author:Steve Squyres

“The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.”

People Want Trying Ideas Moments Feelings Views Mistake Highest Understood Point Of View Priorities Motivated Biggest Mistake

Author:David D. Burns

“The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.”

Made Mistake Speakers Emerging Discounts Biggest Mistake

Author:Darren LaCroix

“The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.”

Ifs Believe Children Enough Helping Kids Mistake Bars If You Believe Biggest Mistake Raising The Bar

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.”

Culture Mistake Program Improvement Hurdle Biggest Mistake Continual Improvement

Author:John Novak

“The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.”

Mistake Successful Creating Who We Are Allowing Biggest Mistake Successful Relationship

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.”

Mistake Company Biggest Mistake

Author:Charlie Munger

“The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that's the biggest mistake men make on the first date. Just get to know me. Be my friend. Just kick it with me as if I was hanging with a homeboy. It shouldn't be this awkward situation. It should be that we're there, having a great time.”

“One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.”

Way Believe Humans Mistake Path One Way Diverse Biggest Mistake

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.”

Trying Mistake Taxes Blame Accepted Pretending Cash Payment Biggest Mistake Life Mistakes Paying Taxes

Author:Brian Mulroney

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

Made Book Shows Mistake Talk Shows Biggest Mistake

Author:Dick Cavett

“One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.”

Home Mistake Support Fans Friendly Bedroom Viewers Bathroom Delusional Biggest Mistake Photo Shoots

Author:Park Dietz

“One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.”

Needs Problem Mistake Company Forever Progress Team Creating Function Innovation Mirrors Critical Core Crush Addresses Versus Biggest Mistake Large Companies

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen that lead to anything other than cynicism and hundreds of dead flowers.”

Ideas Mistake Leader Creativity Flower Embrace Cynicism Biggest Mistake Blooming Flower Dead Flowers

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.”

Made Two Shows Realizing Mistake Show Business Cocaine Biggest Mistake

Author:Larry Gatlin

“Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.”

Mistake Crazy Trump Election Voters Fraud Accusation Biggest Mistake Newts Voter Fraud

Author:Chuck Todd

“I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh my God this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life." And then the next moment it's "This is the most beautiful and extraordinary human being, and I'm going to stick with it because I love them more than anyone else." That monologue to me is the universal thing, especially for women because I feel like that's the big thing with women.”

“It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, "people," because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.”

People Should Years Made Lasts Mistake Red Should Have Racing Engines Last Year Bulls Me Alone Insisting Biggest Mistake Red Bull

Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.”

People Thinking Way Humans Littles Mistake Dog Behavior Assuming Biggest Mistake

Author:Cesar Millan

“Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.”

People Knows Needs Wells Kind Made Helping Wanted Realizing Mistake Careers Millions Advice Skills Creating Okay Useless Titles Ran Software Biggest Mistake Checklists Useless Things

Author:Reid Hoffman

“I think there is nothing that can replace your emotional response. The biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life are when people told me, "You really should produce this. It's a guaranteed hit." I would read the material and I would go, "I don't get it, but okay, I'll produce it." You're giving up that much of your life, your time with family and friends, to something that you're not really committed to - and they did not pan out the way everyone said they would, even though I worked just as hard.”

People Thinking Giving Mistake Emotional Giving Up Okay Response Committed Family And Friends Biggest Mistake

Author:Gale Anne Hurd

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