Quotes About Mistakes

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Accidents happen all the time.

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

Your uncle Lawrence is a very moral man. He knows, in his heart, what is right. And he'll do it, no matter what people say of him. I nodded. But how do we know when we're doing the right thing, Father? He drew up the horse's reins in front of our house. We don't always, Ebie. Answers don't come easily. At least they never have, to me. I've done many a wrong thing in my time. But I've always tried to make up for it.

It's so easy to be wrong about the things you're close to. I know that now. I learned that then.

in spite of everything, I still don't have enough faith in God. He's given me so much, which I don't deserve, and yet each day I make so many mistakes!

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things up. We're going to get our tentacles wrapped around things and squirt our squiddy ink all over, so that there is even less visibility, and then we're going to squeeze the very life out of everything.