“Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.” MadeStoriesPerfectMistakeNot PerfectI'm Not PerfectColourful Author:Peter Slipper
“That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.” MadeEnoughStoriesWantedMistake Book:Stories & Texts for Nothing Source: Stories & Texts for Nothing
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanStoriesSchoolCoursesMistakeEducationStudySeeingConditionsDutyHabitEasierHolyFoundationStructureWingsAddEducationalGravesCuriousEnjoymentInquiryCoercion Author:Albert Einstein
“"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"” PeopleThinkingMenWorldWaySaidEndsStoriesStrongWhitePowerfulMistakeHeardSeaLandDrinkGunSlaveWhite ManClansAbominationStrong Drink Author:Chinua Achebe
“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!” MenYearsMadeTwoStoriesFilmThreeFoundSidesMy OwnNumbersMistakeCareersRecordsMagicInformationMetsCreatingErrorsMathematicalThree YearsCagesInfluentialAmusingTwo SidesScrapHomageBad Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“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.” ThinkingWorldStoriesMistakeThis WorldMastersCookingCreatorBoringWorking ItDumpDungeonsBiggest Mistake Author:Rick Remender
“In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.” ThinkingStoriesBitsTermInterestingMistakeStyleToolsAttempting Author:Kelly Link
“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.” PeopleHardStoriesBigsTurnsEnergyInterestMistakeSeriousConsequenceNarrativeRight ThingDoing The Right ThingBig Mistake Author:Kelly Link
“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.” WayMadeStillsStoriesBigsWinningSportsRaceMistakeSeasonsFourthFifthMade A MistakeBig MistakeI Made A MistakeWinning The Race Author:Bode Miller
“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.” ShouldChildrenStoriesSocialGrowsMistakeGrowing UpGraceWonderfulCrazyHabitDearAllowingCommentSpouseUnimportantTuesdayWednesdayCorrectingInterruptingSocial Graces Author:Judith Martin
“Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.” PeopleWayIdeasFactsStoriesSchoolLastsFilmYoungMistakeGroupsIntentionAcceptedFilm School Author:Haile Gerima
“make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.” StoriesLiteratureMistakeNovelMysteryExpressionDetectivesMystery NovelsDetective Stories Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.” MadeStoriesPastRealizingMistakePathDrawsMy FriendsTwentiesGladHorribleRocketsSetbackMy PastTrajectoryHorrible Things Author:Chuck Palahniuk