Mistakes Quotes
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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
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Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people’s intentions are good and that they want to solve problems. Give them responsibility, let the mistakes happen, and let people fix them. If there is fear, there is a reason—our job is to find the reason and to remedy it. Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
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There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.
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We're kind of defined by our mistakes.
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One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
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I've been married nearly 34 years, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.
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Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.
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God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.
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Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.
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Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
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Making mistakes is how we learn.
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Make mistakes, make shit break. Those are the little things you remember. No-one remembers a smooth gig.
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I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
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Mermaids trustee describes our revelation of its legal and safeguarding failures as an "attack." An earlier Mermaids statement (now deleted) called it "transphobic." These are not people learning the right lessons from their mistakes.
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History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
