Screw Ups Quotes - Page 5

• Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

  Tom Hanks

  Good Day, Thinking, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

  Susane Colasanti

  Karma, Revenge, Want

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.124, Penguin

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  4 Copy quote

• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Assumption

  12 Copy quote

• Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

  Larry Brilliant

  Integrity, Mistake, Mean

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

  Winston Groom

  Growing Up, Young, Harder

  48 Copy quote

• Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Intelligent, People

  4 Copy quote

• Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Actors, Way

  16 Copy quote

• I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

  George Eads

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

  Rick Yancey

  Fall, Important, Might

  Richard Yancey, Rick Yancey (2005). “The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You’ve claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound men’s asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my whores out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized I’d staked mine already.” He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. “I’m yours now … Even if I screw this up, I’ll still be your screw-up.

  Katy Evans

  Men, Hair, Two

  5 Copy quote

• We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Cutting, People

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.121, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

  James Hillman

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thinking

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Done, Want, Proud

  4 Copy quote

• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

  8 Copy quote

• Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Hurt, Dad

  8 Copy quote

• I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Kids, Frank, Screws

  4 Copy quote

• There’s too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d’in. (Jericho) Yes, I di’id. Don’t make me use my Jeri ninja mind tricks on you. I might screw up and fry your brains. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brain, Mind, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Funny, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'.

  Lauren Kate

  People, Schedules, Way

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.95, Delacorte Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Tears, Rooms, Faces

  4 Copy quote

• What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

  Stephen Dunn

  Music, Lying, Taken

  9 Copy quote

• I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

  Niki Burnham

  Teacher, Hate, Mistake

  4 Copy quote

• It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.

  Cassia Leo

  Love You, Envy, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.

  Vinod Khosla

  Use, Investment, Screws

  4 Copy quote