Quotes About Mistakes

Si todos los seres humanos comprendieran la Historia, podrían dejar de cometer los mismos estúpidos errores una y otra vez.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

You're going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you've committed, see if you can come to grips with them

She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering in the hold of the ship, losing her baby, and facing a future of total uncertainty.

No daba consejos, porque según su experiencia era una pérdida de tiempo, cada uno comete sus propios errores y aprende de ellos.

One of the most tenacious myths of modern military history is that of German military omnicompetence. Even the staunchest critics prefer to believe that military disasters happen by design, rather than to imagine that structural dysfunction, or just plain mistakes, could have riddled the premier institution of the Kaiserreich. But that was precisely what was so embarrassing about the war in SWA: it displayed German military incompetence.

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.

Not scoring in the red zone and turning it over, man, that gets you beat.

Whenever we have penalties and take a 10-yard penalty down the red zone, it gets tough.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgement.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.