Best Stupid Mistake Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.”

Ifs Mistake Stupid Population Finished Operations Insurgency Stupid Mistake

Author:Meles Zenawi

“I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!”

Done Lost Mistake Morning Stupid Painting Twenties Rage Mood Session Foul Stupid Mistake

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Ends Age Turns Mistake Accepting Mankind Stupid Nervous Shells Hook Pastries Nervousness Stupid Mistake

Author:Anton Chekhov

“If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”

Ifs Humans Might Human Beings Mistake History Stupid Understood Cease Stupid Mistake

Book:Prelude to Foundation

Source: Prelude to Foundation

“I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.”

Ifs Way Writing Made Shows Jobs Mistake Break Imagine Advice Stupid Lucky Helpful Do The Best Unreliable Day Jobs Really Stupid Lucky Breaks Stupid Mistake

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.”

Has Beens Made Bigs Mistake Stupid Stupid Mistake

Author:Pete Seeger

“What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.”

Ifs Might Can Do Mistake Stupid Industry Tools Okay Entertainment Embarrassed Saying No Entertainment Industry Stupid Mistake

Author:Paul Schneider

“The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.”

World Whole Left Mistake Stupid Whole World Versus Coke Biodiversity Pepsi Landscaping Stupid Mistake

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.”

World Stills Jobs Pay Mistake Nice Stupid Twenties Far Away Your Stupid Stupid Mistake

Author:Katie Aselton

“It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.”

Thinking Today Deals Mistake Stupid Catholic Burning Reverse Heresy Heretic Same Mistakes Very Stupid Stupid Mistake

Author:Peter Kreeft

“We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.”

Young Mistake Stupid Amends Such Is Life Stupid Mistake

Book:Coyote

Source: Coyote

“Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!”

Lying Behinds Mistake Fate Sky Stupid Very Good Deeds Clever Stupid Mistake

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.”

World Reason Forget Mistake Stupid Albums Reason Why Stupid Mistake Forget The World

Author:Afrojack

“Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!”

Firsts Bigs Mistake Company Records Stupid Sells Albums Alternatives Record Companies Big Mistake Stupid Mistake

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.”

Mistake Enemy Plans Stupid Particular Victory Brilliance Stupid Mistake

Author:Orson Scott Card

“People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.”

People Mistake Stupid Stupid Mistake

Author:Karin Slaughter

“There were mistakes that I made that I did learn from. When you don't have responsibilities, the only responsibility is for yourself, but when you have someone there to mentor you, then you don't make stupid mistakes.”

Made Mistake Responsibility Stupid Mentor Stupid Mistake

Author:John Starks

“Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”

Men Decision Mistake Influence Stupid Stupid Mistake

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.”

“...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.”

Grows Mistake Stupid Design Function Dumb Software Inventory Software Design Dumb Things Stupid Mistake

Author:Tim Bray

“All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.”

May Ideas Seems Beautiful Games Lost Mistake Stupid Masters Losing Pressure Tables Chess Recognition Occasions Zero Magnificent Unjust Tournaments Stupid Mistake

Author:Bent Larsen