Quotes About Mistakes

I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

I will make a lot of mistakes and have to learn from them. It is part and parcel of the captaincy.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

Growing up, my father was never interested in how many goals I scored, how many passes I made, but only in how many mistakes I made, and how I could be more efficient.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Sometimes, no matter how smart you are, you can't avoid getting tripped up.

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Animals, like humans, make in life the mistakes that will ultimately lead to their death, either physically or on a spiritual and emotional level. People and animals that stay on the same paths in life will eventually wear themselves into ruts. Soon the ruts become so deep that the people can no longer see over the sides. They see neither danger, or beauty, only the path before them because they fear losing their security and are afraid to enter the land of the unknown.

Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

But in the meantime there's no reason to starve the users for [syntactic] sugar. It doesn't rot their teeth and it helps them avoid mistakes. — Brendan Eich

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters

Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made And they're afraid that I'm afraid

You don't right the wrongs of past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)

Never promote someone who hasn't made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything.