Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Computers double their performance every month.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

No driver is perfect.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Acting is happy agony.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Stand-up is my baby.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.