“That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.” IfsFeelsYearsLongShowsBigsLastsPassionLosesActingMistakeResponsibilityTakenSawsToo MuchGrewMonthsSixMouthsYears AgoDirectTwentiesDetailsOpeningEnjoyedTonightSix MonthsTuesdayBig Responsibility Author:Burt Reynolds
“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.” YearsTwoDoneMistakeHalfYears AgoRidiculousPotBatsBlundersLsd Author:Timothy Leary
“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.” PeopleYearsLooksLittlesStillsHappensInterestMistakeCareersPathChangedStrangeYears AgoThings HappenOutlookStrange ThingsCareer PathAnimator Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I believe this is a mistake a great many of us are making; we are trying to do God's work with the grace God gave us ten years ago. We say, if it is necessary, we will go on with the same grace. Now, what we want is a fresh supply, a fresh anointing and fresh power, and if we seek it, and seek it with all our hearts, we will obtain it.” IfsWantTryingYearsBelieveHeartI BelieveMistakeGraceGoes OnTenYears AgoGreat MenAnointing Book:Secret Power Source: Secret Power
“When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.” IfsYearsChildrenTwoDonePurposeMistakeWallOne DayYears AgoCatDistanceTherapyTwo YearsTherapistsFramedTwo Years Ago Book:Swimming to Cambodia Source: Swimming to Cambodia
“I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.” YearsMadeSufferingMistakeYears AgoLoyalty Author:Daniel Inouye
“He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.” PeopleKnowsYearsLooksMayAnswersMistakeTalkingLeaderYears AgoDiedEdgesIsraelAidsShipsMinistersPrimePilotsApologyCoastPrime MinisterIncidentsPutinGazaTurkishErdogan Author:Peter Kenyon
“Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.” IfsThinkingWantYearsHumansKindMatterFactsFeelingsCareSpiritualVoiceCommonMistakePracticeDespairYears AgoCrossesBurdenDon't CareArguingRelievedSpiritual PracticeVoices In My Head Author:Leonard Cohen
“Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.” YearsLittlesSaidPastBitsMy OwnMistakeOughtTenLittle BitOrdinaryYears AgoTriflesShiver Book:Can You Forgive Her? Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.” IfsYearsDoneLastsRememberMistakeHumilityYears AgoHumbleRepent Author:Radhanath Swami