Screw Ups Quotes - Page 7

• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Plot, Development

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Men

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• All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mistake, Trying, Done

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

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• Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

  Betty White

  Cities, Snow, Inspire

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

  Joel Miller

  Meaningful, People, Risk

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• I do a lot of weird movies that maybe you don't like and I experiment a lot but maybe I do appreciate the process and I think my greatest joy in this business is that I have had the ability to screw up in a lot of really interesting films!

  Josh Hartnett

  Thinking, Appreciate, Interesting

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, World, Checks

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• ... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

  Robben Ford

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

  Will Ferrell

  Dog, Decision, Too Late

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• You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Golf, Not Afraid, Screws

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• Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

  Tim Ferriss

  Sorry, Troublemaker, Screws

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

  Jandy Nelson

  Falling In Love, Grieving, Self

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• I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.

  Christopher Vokes

  Men, Soldier, Computer

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 74), 1985.

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• If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Rest Of Your Life, Screws

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2014

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• If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

  Pete Rose

  Lying, Clean, Don't Lie

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• One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

  Tucker Max

  Games, Play, People

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• Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

  Gary W. Keller

  Opportunity, Multitasking, Focus On One Thing

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• Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

  Jami Gertz

  Mom, Mother, Levels

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• We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Moving, Perfect

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• You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

  Alfie Kohn

  Growing Up, Unconditional Love, Resent You

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• Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

  Bob Goff

  Swings, Dust, Three

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Volleyball, Balls

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• A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  Language, Mechanic, Screws

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• I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say a Los Angeles as opposed to a New York City. The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.

  Adam Cole

  New York, Men, Cities

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

  Kristin Hannah

  Loving You, Might, Firsts

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.431, Macmillan

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