“But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.” ShouldSaidActingMistakeOur LivesSeeingLateShould HaveToo LateLife WisdomUnsaid Book:Love Over Scotland Source: Love Over Scotland
“Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire.” ShouldYearsLongMadeImportantStatesGovernmentJobsHousePresidentUnitedMistakeUnited StatesWorstShould HaveVicesStuckSpeakersSparesTireGave UpVice PresidentImportant Jobs Author:John Nance Garner
“Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.” IfsThinkingWayShouldTryingHas BeensMadeDifferentTodayPastRememberChoicesMistakeRegretShould HaveShould Have BeenBack In TimeGo Back In TimeDifferent ChoicesPast Regrets Author:John S. Hall
“It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.” PeopleShouldDoneGuyThreeGamesWinningMistakeSawsBasketballShould HaveTablesUglyShootingFortunateNbaTurnoverUgly People Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.” WorldShouldPersonsMadeCharacterMistakeAudienceLoversNormalOrdinaryShould HaveHollywoodSaneNeuroticOrdinary PersonPerfectly NormalLead Characters Author:Gene Wilder
“We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.” PeopleShouldMadeSelfDoneChristianSpiritualLinesMistakeResponsibilityPracticeTeachingTaughtShould HaveTaking ResponsibilityMade A MistakeSpiritual Practice Author:Bill Hybels
“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!” IfsShouldYearsHumansArtSoulFormActorsForgetEffortActingMistakeSpecialFieldsShould HaveTwentiesLaysAgingBottomTheatreTechniqueMediumsDespiteCertaintyThirtyMovieVisualsAlasHuman SoulTheatricalThirty YearsConcentratingMy MistakesEmployingExponents Author:Eleanora Duse
“I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.” ShouldWellsLooksDoneFeelingsLeftMistakeResponsibilityShould HaveTaking Responsibility Author:Jack Nicholson
“Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.” NeedsShouldMindFirstsHas BeensPastMovingMistakeSituationNegativeShould HaveForgivingReleaseOur PastYour PastLet It GoHostageForgive YourselfReplay Author:Les Brown
“I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.” ShouldMadeMistakeShould HaveAbsolutesSupporterMade A MistakeAbsolute PowerI Made A Mistake Author:Irakli Okruashvili
“The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.” ShouldSelfPainAbilityCommonMistakeQualityHumilityEqualResearchShould HaveIndependentListsToleranceCommon SensePersistenceWillingnessInvestorsPanicSelf RelianceFlexibilityRelianceDetachmentOpen Mindedness Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.” GivingShouldEnoughMistakeResponsibilityLeaderAcceptingHumilityShould HaveCreditTriumphSubordinatesSelected Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.” ShouldFirstsHas BeensMadeTwoMistakeGoneCoupleShould HaveAlbumsRehabVictoria Author:Robbie Williams
“Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.” ThinkingWantShouldYearsKindCountryBigsWould BeFightingGoalMistakePathShareAchieveShould HaveUniversalDebateOur CountryProgressiveHealthcareSenatorsWant UStarting OverPlungeGreat MistakesContentious Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.” IfsWayShouldHas BeensAbleForceMistakeConcernedShould HaveWesternIraqBarackOppositionRegimesStableAlliancesArmed ForcesAssad Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“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.” PeopleShouldYearsMadeLastsMistakeRedShould HaveRacingEnginesLast YearBullsMe AloneInsistingBiggest MistakeRed Bull Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.” ThinkingShouldSaidDecisionAttentionMistakeNeededOfficeShould HaveIraqFocusedPay AttentionAfghanistanMomentumTalibanRight Decision Author:Barack Obama
“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.” IfsThinkingWantShouldMayEndsSeemsWould BeCan DoMistakeSucceedShould HaveVictimGreat MistakesThere Is HopeBad Life Author:Stephen Hawking
“Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!” IfsWantShouldTodayMistakeWrittenShould HaveOkay Author:Al Franken
“Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!” ShouldMadeMistakeGoneShould HaveWomens RightsBiggest MistakeSuffragettes Author:Jennifer Worth
“In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.” ShouldWarChoicesMistakeMilitaryShould HaveCongressIraqPredecessors Author:John Garamendi
“Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.” ShouldMadePoliticalMistakeLibertyTaxesShould HaveDebtSpendingLibertarianRepresentationTaxationForefathersNational DebtOne MistakeTaxation Without Representation Author:Fletcher Knebel