Quotes About Mistakes

I don't want to say I'm a role model because I've not been the most clean-cut person, and there were times I could have gone the other way.

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

I made some monumental mistakes with Barcelona.

I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.

The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

I cheated on my wife for years. Had children with different mothers.

Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past.

For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out --through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring and hopeful and believing and confused.

I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

we should keep an open mind, asking how we might be mistaken, and whether the facts have changed.

That is why 'learn from your mistakes' is wise advice that is painfully hard to take.

Doing foolish things in an attempt 'to correct the past', like marrying the man whose baby you just aborted, isn't unusual at all. It's part of being human. What

Los dispositivos digitales evitan errores pequeños pero preparan el terreno para grandes errores».

isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

their mistakes. Most individuals suffer from the same problem. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. 9

and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is

As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

People are fools, not monsters

One of the mistakes we make in handling God's Word is that we reduce it to a set of directions on how to live. We look for directions about relationships, church life, sex, finances, marriage, happiness, parenting, and so on. We mistakenly think that if we have clear directions we will be all right. But we keep getting lost! All the wise and precise directions given to us in Scripture haven't kept us from getting lost in the middle of our personal "big city.

You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience—but experience often came from bad decisions.