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Quotes About Mistakes

intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.
~ Mark Haddon
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time. "Well?
~ Mark Haddon
Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.
~ Mark Kurlansky
In alcohol's defence, I've done some idiotic shit sober.
~ Mark Millar
Try as we will, we cannot escape the making of mistakes. But fortunately, the ever humbling cycle of growing strong roots comes from eating what grows from our own shit, from digesting and processing our own humanity. Like the buffalo, we are nourished by what sprouts from our own broken trail. What we trample and leave behind fertilizes what will feed us. No one is exempt.
~ Mark Nepo
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
~ Mark Twain
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
~ Mark Twain
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
~ Anthony Bourdain
And I made things worse—far worse—in all the drearily predictable ways. Underscore that sentence.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
~ Anthony Robbins
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. —TONY ROBBINS
~ Anthony Robbins
So if you think you can time the markets, you're wrong.
~ Anthony Robbins
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.
~ Anthony Robbins
Risk comes from not knowing what
~ Anthony Robbins
Remember: Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!
~ Anthony Robbins
Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!
~ Anthony Robbins
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process! Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Constantly find ways to improve yourself. Practice
~ Anthony Robbins
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
~ Anthony Trollope
I am quite prepared to acknowledge that John Eames should have kept himself clear of Amelia Roper; but then young men so frequently do those things which they should not do!
~ Anthony Trollope
Wise people, when they are in the wrong, always put themselves right by finding fault with the people against whom they have sinned.
~ Anthony Trollope
The Duchess of Omnium was not the most discreet woman in the world. That was admitted by her best friends, and was the great sin alleged against her by her worst enemies. In her desire to say sharp things, she would say the sharp thing in the wrong place, and in her wish to be good-natured she was apt to run into offences.
~ Anthony Trollope
Hitler had learned nothing and had forgotten nothing.
~ Antony Beevor
How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?
~ Arlene James
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.
~ Arthur C. Clarke