Quotes About Mistakes

Maggie was crying hard and I rubbed her back. I couldn't stop looking at my dad. "Me, you, Lester, Lucy. We're all good people who have done stupid things. We have to look out for one another, Maggie. Rescue each other even," he said. "You know how to do that better than anyone.

If you hold back for fear of making a mistake you will never accomplish what you must. And with each challenge you will become stronger.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.

There are some things in this world you can never get back... There's no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don't you think it'd be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it?

Programming "was just the most bizarre situation, because you're used to doing something and thinking you've done it right," he later said. "But it isn't right. You just don't notice it isn't right. On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong." Even

You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

The Fall of the House of Usher' is a fair primer on what not to do with children.

I've made so many mistakes,' she says. 'I can't help you,' I say. She shakes her head and picks up the baby. 'We'll be out of your way now,' she says. 'Merry Christmas.' "And they leave. I'm pretty shaken up, so I go into the kitchen to make myself some tea. When I get back out to the living room, I notice that the little girl has left her backpack and Tamerlane is on the floor next to it.

To be noble,. . .was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth.

I won't say we human beings still don't have much to learn. Sometimes we love and hate without thought. We expect too much from one another, and often we are wrong.

In the end, it doesn't matter what words are said or unsaid. . . .Life's mistakes are made whether you can see them or not. What counts is how we learn to live with them.

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways.

When I am racing, my mind and my body are working so quickly and so well together, I must be sure no to think, or else I will definitely make a mistake.

we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,

Ideally, a driver is a master of all that is around him, Denny says. Ideally, a driver controls the car so completely that he corrects a spin before it happens, he anticipates all possibilities. But we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen, incidents with other drivers happen, and a driver must react.

As a parent, you can't completely avoid making mistakes. Accept it.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress.

When we put too much energy into eliminating mistakes, we're less likely to gain insights. Having insights is a different matter from preventing mistakes.

We can assume that when the Bible teaches submission, God knew full well that wives would have to watch their husbands fail and make mistakes. Thankfully, this verse also presents some boundaries. If you submit "out of reverence for Christ," you are never obligated — ever — to do anything that would offend Christ.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.