Quotes About Mistakes

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings – I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers.

the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise.

cuando más te necesitan tus amigos es cuando se equivocan, Jean Louise, no cuando tienen razón.

She could not comprehend the attitudes of young people these days. Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her. Jean Louise was about to make the worst mistake of her life, and she glibly quoted those people at her, she mocked her.

draugams tav?s reikia, kai jie klysta, o ne tada, kai b?na teis?s...

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

We're all wrong, every one of us.

Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause

Give yourself permission to screw up.

ADT isn't an illness or character defect. It's our brains' natural response to exploding demands on our time and attention. As data increasingly floods our brains, we lose our ability to solve problems and handle the unknown. Creativity shrivels; mistakes multiply. Some sufferers eventually melt down.

Seek authorities who are willing to both show you how they arrived at their conclusions and admit when they have made mistakes.

With this 'social media,' instead of letters you get emails. They're all written in a hurry, with no punctuation, no paragraphs - it's one continual stream, with spelling mistakes. Quite frankly I think it's a world I don't need. But I have to read them all because people say, 'Did you get my letter?' And it's not even a letter!

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.

I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.

Even we can get things wrong sometimes.

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.