Quotes About Mistakes

The end result was that people stopped investing in apartment buildings, and a huge shortage in rentals and housing forced many Egyptians to live in horrible conditions with several families sharing one small apartment. The effects of the harsh rent control is still felt today in Egypt. Mistakes like that can last for generations.2

It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

That decades had to pass before a mistake with obvious negative consequences began to be corrected is one sign of the problems of decisions by third parties who pay no price for being wrong.

The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.

No one likes to admit being mistaken but, under the incentives and constraints of profit and loss, there is often no choice but to reverse course before financial losses threaten bankruptcy. In politics, however, the costs of the government's mistakes are often paid by the taxpayers, while the costs of admitting mistakes are paid by elected officials.

Las personas cometen errores en todos los ámbitos del emprendimiento humano, pero cuando se cometen grandes errores en una economía competitiva, aquellos que estuvieron equivocados pueden ser forzados a salir del mercado por las pérdidas resultantes.

Don't let your fear of making a mistake dictate your chances for love. Remind yourself that at least one good thing came out of every mistake you've ever made.

That's why an Angelina Jolie is always going to win over a Winona Ryder. Fuckups are more interesting.

I have made a great many mistakes, but had I not made them, I would not have learned the value of honor. I would not have learned to love and be loved. I would not have learned that I am happiest when I am working. And that I will never lose my brothers and sisters, even if we are apart, because as a family, we are one.

I want to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. —Warren Buffett

What about you? You ever done anything wrong in your entire life?" "Why do you ask that?" "Honey, you look like the Virgin Mary." Her chin came up. "I've done some things." "Like?" "I cheated on a test in first grade." "That bad?" "I told the teacher right away." "No surprise there.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Tallulah Bankhead The

Their freedom to make choices means they are free to make wrong ones." -Luke Skywalker

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Here's what Mike knew about kids: They did stupid stuff. Pretty much all of them.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

If a person is riding at all he is already doing more right than wrong. The job is to add to those correct actions and drop the incorrect. Do you do this? You

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to make new mistakes. And those who only learn selected lessons from history are doomed to do both.

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

Experience is another word for mistakes.

In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma" that must be memorized and regurgitated. Yet in the "real science you're not too worried about the right answer... Real science recognizes that you have an advantage over practically any other human enterprise because what you are after- call it truth or understanding- waits patiently for you while you screw up.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.