Quotes About Mistakes

for System 1 in making routine decisions. The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Constantly questioning our own thinking would be impossibly tedious, and System 2 is much too slow and inefficient to serve as a substitute for System 1 in making routine decisions. The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

anyone who ignores base rates and the quality of evidence in probability assessments will certainly make mistakes.

The associative machinery seeks causes. The difficulty we have with statistical regularities is that they call for a different approach. Instead of focusing on how the event at hand came to be, the statistical view relates it to what could have happened instead. Nothing in particular caused it to be what it is—chance selected it from among its alternatives. Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.

judgment heuristics "are quite useful, but sometimes lead to severe and systematic errors.

the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage.

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

It is certainly to be regretted that we have so many things to do and our business day is so fully occupied that somehow or other we seem to make mistakes which could have been avoided if we had really spent the time necessary to think the matter through to a logical conclusion.

And if they really fuck it up and do make a horrible mistake, which can happen to anyone, from any culture, you still have to sit back and watch from the sidelines. It's their life. What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes. That's the deal. Once they grow up, they belong to themselves, not to us.

Mistakes are lessons in disguise and accurate reflections of your true state. Maybe you need to slow down. Maybe your initial expectation was actually what was wrong. Maybe you need to draw more often.

Then there were other reasons for living too, ones that mortals rarely thought of but that raged like fires in Rachel's mind: To correct mistakes. To avoid regret. To accept regret. To change. But none of these seemed possible either.

EVERYBODY AROUND HERE likes to pave their roads with good intentions," the already-was Daniel muttered, "but those roads never seemed to get me anywhere. So I built this one out of stupid mistakes instead.

Mistakes are a very durable building material," the mortal Daniel was saying. "Most people just throw them away as soon as possible and never realize that you can learn from them. But if you do, they can actually hold you up pretty well.

Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life--for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!

The enemy has always had a great way of trying to keep each of us tied to past sin, weighing us down with sorrow or pain and regret. Feeling heavy under the weight of knowing you made stupid mistakes will, if you allow it, cripple you for life. We have all fallen short. There is no one on earth who has not made mistakes. But walking in the miracle of forgiveness gives God much glory. The

In life and leadership, you will make mistakes—and those around you will make mistakes as well. None of us are perfect.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

There are no guarantees in life, so learn from others' mistakes. Enjoy what you can, while you can. Don't let it consume you like . . . well, just let go and let life happen.

Henry Ford said, "Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

A journey of self-discovery is never pointless, Prince Zuko. However dim your path may seem, and however far you may wander from it...the important thing is that you learn from all of your mistakes along the way and never forget for one moment who you are, or what you are struggling to be.

ANY NATION THAT FAILS TO LEARN FROM HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT THAT HISTORY.

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.