Quotes About Mistakes

How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.

The man who makes no mistakes never makes anything

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El que tiene grandes pensamientos, a menudo comete grandes errores (Martin Heidegger)

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.

In the final analysis, God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives. In the final analysis, God knows that his children are weak and they are frail. In the final analysis, what God requires is that your heart is right.

And since that fateful day, "I'll do it my way" has been the prideful inclination of every man and woman who has ever lived. We mess up our lives by refusing to accept God's boundaries. We mess them up more by trying to cover the resulting problem with our own flimsy, ridiculous efforts. Instead of humbly submitting to God, we stubbornly refuse to believe that He knows better. We are literally "hell-bent" to do it our own way.

Bad luck is what we conveniently call our bad choices.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

Whoever proves right in the end must first be and do wrong. But it is only after the fact that we learn who was right to begin with.

just as the mistakes princes make are paid for by whole peoples, so the errors of great minds spread their malign influence over whole generations, even for hundreds of years, growing and proliferating until in the end they degenerate into monstrosities.

When you recreate the image of man, why repeat God's mistakes?

The hollow, knobbled calf was pink, like proper calves should be. (When you re-create the image of man, why repeat God's mistakes?)

When one is lonely, one does foolish things.

Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

all human beings err, but they err frequently and in predictable, patterned ways.

He also found he made mistakes in handling complexity. A good decision requires looking at so many different features of companies in so many ways that, even without the cocaine brain, he was missing obvious patterns. His mental checklist wasn't good enough. "I am not Warren," he said. "I don't have a 300 IQ." He needed an approach that could work for someone with an ordinary IQ. So he devised a written checklist.

the individualized, intuitive approach that lies at the center of modern medicine is flawed—it causes more mistakes than it prevents.

You see it in the 36 percent increase between 2004 and 2007 in lawsuits against attorneys for legal mistakes—the most common being simple administrative errors, like missed calendar dates and clerical screwups, as well as errors in applying the law. You see it in flawed software design, in foreign intelligence failures, in our tottering banks—in fact, in almost any endeavor requiring mastery of complexity and of large amounts of knowledge. Such

He began to cut corners, became sloppy.

Errors are too common and widespread to be explained so simply.

the 36 percent increase between 2004 and 2007 in lawsuits against attorneys for legal mistakes—the most common being simple administrative errors, like missed calendar dates and clerical screwups, as well as errors in applying the law.

When things go wrong, it's almost impossible for a physician to talk to a patient honestly about mistakes.