Screw Ups Quotes

Each one of these decisions, even when they were ultimately reversed, set recovery efforts back further. Is this all a masterful conspiracy to make sure Puerto Ricans are too desperate, distracted, and despairing to resist Wall Street's bitter economic medicine? I don't believe it's anything that coordinated. Much of this is simply what happens when you bleed the public sphere for decades, laying off competent workers and neglecting basic maintenance. Run-of-the-mill corruption and cronyism are no doubt at work as well.

But it's also true that many governments have deployed a starve-then-sell strategy when it comes to public services: cut health care/transit/education to the bone until people are so disillusioned and desperate that they are willing to try anything, including selling off those services altogether. And if Rosselló and the Trump administration have seemed remarkably unconcerned about the nonstop relief and reconstruction screw-ups, the attitude may be at least partly informed by an understanding that the worse things get, the stronger the case for privatization becomes. ~ Naomi Klein

You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who's still there. ~ Jeffree Star

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

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

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

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up ~ Tim Ferriss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, Oh my fucking mother she screw ups everything! ~ Deyth Banger

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

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe 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

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body. ~ Mike Shinoda

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much. ~ Steve Martin

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence. ~ Tom Peters

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

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

When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play. ~ Bob Sanders

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

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

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up! ~ Tony Robbins

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

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

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better. ~ David Walker

Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups. ~ Roxanne Snopek

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma. ~ Susane Colasanti

I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up. ~ Cory Arcangel

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

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively. ~ Tom Christiansen

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

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt. ~ Josh Kaufman

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us. ~ Susan Mallery

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life. ~ Brandon Thomas

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

I screwed up guys, real big time; holy great grandmother of all screw-ups! ~ Satyen Nabar

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier. ~ Neal Shusterman

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. ~ Angelo Donghia

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up. ~ David Krumholtz

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. ~ Laurie Faria Stolarz

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

But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right. ~ Abbi Glines

Some people screw up, and then some people are screw-ups. ~ Jay Crownover

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it. ~ Anna Paquin

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

Anyway, there was a difference in watching media because I was safe on a transport with no one making me do anything, and watching media because I was trying not to think about all the ways I'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part. ~ Martha Wells

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

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

The honest man might observe ... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. ~ David Mamet

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

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. ~ Sarah Dessen

Love is meant to twist you up, spin you around, and tilt your whole world. Real love makes it worth the ride – the ups, the down, the screw-ups, the make-ups…especially the make-ups. ~ B.J. Harvey

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

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean. ~ Edward Hoagland

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay. ~ David D. Burns

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

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

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

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. ~ Dennis Miller

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that. ~ Greg Egan

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

I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine. ~ Mitch Hedberg

I can let you in, Eva. I'm trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can't stand feeling like any moment I'm going to do or say something wrong and you're going to bolt. ~ Sylvia Day

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film. ~ Dean Cain

Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass. ~ Dante Alighieri

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive. ~ Colin Angle

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right. ~ Candace Bushnell

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

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. ~ Richard Petty

If you love someone, you will want to understand them and accept them as they grow and change; similarly, loving yourself involves a never-ending process of self-understanding and self-acceptance through life's ups and downs...we are finally coming to understand that love for neighbor and love for self naturally lead to love for the earth...if you love your neighbor as yourself, you want both them and you to be able to breathe, so you need to love clean fresh air...you want them and you to be able to drink, so you need to love pure water in all its forms...you want them and you to be be able to eat, so you need to care about the climate...." (p. 59-60) ~ Brian McLaren

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid. ~ Matt Groening

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality. ~ Adam Lambert

I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue. ~ Henry James

Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets? ~ Cornelia Funke

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ~ James Wolcott

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up. ~ Steven Pressfield

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. ~ Lucinda Williams

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Keys parachuted down into one of the exact seats he purchased that he and his father sat in as season ticket holders in the Old Barn on Grand River Avenue. Keys slipped his arm around the empty chair dressed with his father's withering Tiger's baseball cap, secured to the seat with a quarter inch drywall screw. Keys reflected upon his father, who chauffeured Keys and other players, every weekend, to a hockey tournament somewhere, "You know pop…every kid you gave a ride too game or practice, came to your funeral. When this hat falls away, no more screws, pop. I'm gonna branch out…make new friends. Soon as these gypsy moths get a hold of your precious, Old English "D", here--turn your glory years, Kaline and Mclain into tree threads. ~ Kevin Moccia

Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride. ~ Bill Loguidice

I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it. ~ Phillip Phillips

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else. ~ Anne Lamott

When I die I want a child that never met me, to hear were I came from and what I accomplished and for him or her to live their life to the fullest and do what they were put on this world to do. No limitations, blowing past everybody's expectations. Screw whatever body thinks! ~ Richard Cabral

I just take what comes to me. If the drive is there, Im going to take it. If its not there, Ill take a pull-up shot. Im a confident player down the stretch and I feel like I can make the play when I have to. ~ Paul Pierce

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism. ~ Dov Davidoff

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game. ~ Doug Collins

In the Food-Star parking lot, a young blond woman asks Ivy if she has been saved. "What are you talking about?" says Ivy. "Saved!" The young woman's smile brightens distinctly. "You know," she says, "have you found Jesus?" "There's no point in talking to me," says Ivy. When the young woman only blinks and ups her smile volume, Ivy says, "I don't believe in God." "Why not?" "Because I know that I am entirely insignificant, doomed to complete extinction, and I see no reason to pretend otherwise. ~ Jennifer Egan

After all, which would you rather do, pal, screw Bridget Bardot's brains out or read reviews of her movies? ~ M.T. Bass

My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty. ~ Ariana Grande

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. ~ Peter Thiel

I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters. ~ Boyd Holbrook