Quotes About Mistakes

Too often we are resigned to what happens in the blink of an eye. It doesn't seem like we have much control over whatever bubbles to the surface from our unconscious. But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition. We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. One

That's what happens when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things—things that you would pick up on any other day.

second lesson of Blink. Too often we are resigned to what happens in the blink of an eye. It doesn't seem like we have much control over whatever bubbles to the surface from our unconscious. But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition. We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes.

Un típico accidente comprende siete errores humanos consecutivos.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

Only the mistakes were mine.

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time.

Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of.

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Failure is the best teacher for future success.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

I will learn by screwing up.

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

Don't care about *new* mistakes you are going to make, take care that you don't just repeat older ones.

Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!