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Quotes About Mistakes

Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's full of hubris incapable of acknowledging its own mistakes.
~ Will Cain
I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
~ John Irving
When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
~ John Wooden
Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction?
~ Fred DeLuca
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
~ Monica Lewinsky
While 'Final Fantasy XIII-2' does quite a bit to fix the mistakes of its predecessor, it does very little to stand out on its own merits.
~ Jason Schreier
For my first race, when I was 19, I'd bought a 600cc bike. And that was far too big for me, really. I shouldn't have really had something like that. But anyway, I went and raced, and I crashed. In my very first race! But I never gave in. I kept going back and back and back.
~ Guy Martin
There's a handful of racing things I've done where it was like, 'Man, that was really stupid and embarrassing.' But I don't mind talking about them.
~ Kyle Larson
We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes - or not.
~ Niki Lauda
F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
~ Jacques Villeneuve
Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.
~ Robby Gordon
You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.
~ Ralf Schumacher
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
~ Caitlyn Jenner
In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'
~ George Foreman
Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.
~ Karolina Pliskova
I'm human, and we make mistakes. My biggest mistake was that I was running away from something here in New York and I ran into the wrong hands.
~ Tinsley Mortimer
For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
~ Ernie Els
Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.
~ Sharyl Attkisson
And sometimes when you're a general manager for the first time, you're going to make some mistakes. The key is, did you learn from those mistakes?
~ Joel Glazer
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
~ Joan Jett
The language was not a big problem because my English was getting better every year. So, I really felt comfortable and I had trust in myself, you know, talking to people. Even though I know I was making mistakes, I still kept talking. So that's how I learned English.
~ Cedi Osman
There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.
~ David Bryan
I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.
~ Sienna Miller
There have been a couple of times I've started the song in the wrong key. We stop the song, we all laugh together and we start the song again, and we go for it.
~ Mandy Harvey