Quotes About Mistakes

For a man to be his own schoolmaster, is a right dangerous position; the pupil cannot be expected to make progress—except, indeed, in the wrong direction.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.

Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties

Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.

and it is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life

There were things, your own acts, from which you could not recover. Something was killed in your breast; burnt out, cauterized out.

Yönetmek ve yönetimini sürekli k?lmak istiyorsan, gerçeklik duygusunu yolundan ç?karacaks?n. Çünkü yönetmenin s?rr?, bir yandan kendinin yan?lmazl???na inan?rken, bir yandan da geçmiÅŸteki hatalar?ndan ders ç?karabilmektedir.

I HAD learned early in my career that one can do wrong against one's will, and before long I also learned that one can do wrong without ever discovering what one has done or why it was wrong. There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that

Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.

In case I have not said this somewhere earlier in the book I will say it now: beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events. And beware of exactly the same things when you read any other book on this period of the Spanish war.

Aptall??? edinmek, en az zekay? edinmek kadar güçtü.

I did think at first it was my own poor judgment that did cause me loss of many profitable trades. Later, I did credit it to my stubborn disposition.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a fatal infection. This may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn't remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.