Quotes & Sayings About Screw Ups
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C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively. — Tom Christiansen
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
We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why Pixar's goal is to screw up as fast as possible. — Lee Unkrich
Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad. — Jimmy Wales
You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up. — Fuzzy Zoeller
There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups ... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. — Aaron Sorkin
It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business. — Charlie Munger
That means if you want to become strong, you become predictable. You keep your word, know and then honor your commitments, mind the details, invest in daily spiritual input, assume rather than avoid responsibility, admit your mistakes, correct your screw-ups, and keep a healthy watch over yourself. — Anonymous
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
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
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise. — Juan Williams
You're right, Ruth. You did screw up my career. You screwed it up good. Best thing you ever did, matter of fact. But you know something? It's okay. Because if it was between the church and you, there was no contest. Even with al the ups and downs and the craziness and the shit and the maxed-out credit cards, the church never stood a chance. I chose you, Ruth. And I'm glad. There. That's what my so-called career was about. And that's what I should have said to you. And I'm sorry I didn't. I'm sorry, Ruth. I'm sorry. — K. D. Miller
Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay. — David D. Burns
I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success. — George Clooney
It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up
so it's no longer a screw up. — Robert Rodriguez
Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. — Dennis Miller
Screw-ups are the mark of excellence. — Tom Peters
Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you ... I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not."
"I'm happy with you."
She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?"
"I'm considering it," she said. And she was. — Rachel Caine
First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier. — Neal Shusterman
I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real. — Joe Perry
I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up. — Cory Arcangel
There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups. — Roxanne Snopek
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time. — Lauren Beukes
Oh, Oh my fucking mother she screw ups everything! — Deyth Banger
I though I screwed everything up," I say.
He smiles. "You're only one person. In the whole universe. You can't screw everything up. — Caela Carter
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
If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble. — Cory Doctorow
Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass. — Dante Alighieri
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
All those other summers and those other kisses and everything else we shared, my dad choosing some random lake in some random town to stay in one year, the fights and the screw ups that helped us learn and gave us experiences with other people. They were all meant to happen, and our paths were supposed to cross over and over again. Until we found that point, the bright star in the summer sky that would be ours forever. — Nyrae Dawn
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything. — Tom Peters
Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored. — Tim Fargo
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
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
Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places. — Shannon L. Alder
When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play. — Bob Sanders
Remember, changing someone's hang-ups is an easier task if stays in the realm of sex because the carrot at the end of this trip is - SEX! It's not so easy to change other aspects of a man's personality because the rewards aren't as apparent and you can't exactly screw the stupid out of someone. — Roberto Hogue
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways. — Anne Lamott
You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up. — Fuzzy Zoeller
I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up. — Amy Ruley
From this irritating reality comes The First Law of Corporate Survival for ambitious CEOs who pile on leverage and run large and unfathomable derivatives books: Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that are required. — Warren Buffett
It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up. — Laszlo Nemes
If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do. — Peter McWilliams
I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining." — Connie Kalitta
But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all. — Grace Paley
Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure. — Scott Weiss
New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'. — Bill Maher
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else. — Joseph H. Greenberg
If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much. — Steve Martin
They have dog food for constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good thing? Stay indoors and let 'em bloat! — David Letterman
No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it. — Will Ferrell
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
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. — Mark Thornton
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. — Bob Lemon
Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other. — Roddy Piper
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better. — David Walker
We're young. We're supposed to drink too much. We're supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other's brains out. We were designed to party. We owe it to ourselves to party hard. We owe it to each other. This is it. This is our time. So a few of us will overdose, or go mental. Charles Darwin said you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. That's what it's about - breakin' eggs - by eggs, I mean, getting twatted on a cocktail of class. As. If you could see yourselves ... We had it all. We have fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful ... We're screw-ups. I plan on staying a screw-up until my late twenties, or maybe even my early thirties. And I will shag my own mum before I let anyone else take that away from me! — Andrew Espley
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings. — John Piper
I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.' — Kacey Musgraves
Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. — Angelo Donghia
The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up. — Brene Brown