Quotes About Mistakes

Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time.

In Korea, if a player makes a mistake, the other players don't like to point it out. Rather, they try to embrace it; they take the attitude, 'Let's do better next time.' But in the West, if you do something wrong, another player will make a point of saying something, and you will have to fix it immediately.

In life the only thing you can do is learn from your mistakes and maybe next time approach it differently.

The Clinton years were not an economic Nirvana; as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers during part of this time, I'm all too aware of mistakes and lost opportunities.

Interceptions are gonna happen. You can't worry about that. 'I made a mistake? OK, I have to make up for it.' That's my attitude about it. If I worry about it, I've got no chance.

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

It doesn't get any more basic than your backline closing when there's no pressure on the ball. It really is a huge problem if you get it wrong.

I have no problem being wrong. I love it when somebody goes 'Channing you're wrong.'

Look, we all make mistakes. That is no problem. But you have to be willing to make up for your mistakes and to help yourself.

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

Verzeihen heißt nicht, dass man vergisst oder dass man sich nicht mehr wünscht, die Vergangenheit ändern zu können. Hauptsächlich bedeutet es zu akzeptieren, dass man nicht perfekt ist, weil niemand das ist. Und schreckliche Dinge können jedem passieren.

It's important to remember that none of us is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. All we can do is try to be the best version of ourselves as we move forward.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That's what the whole thing is about. And we can't stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the best of us manage to limp on into our sixties or seventies before we succumb. Me, I made it to about thirty-seven, and David made it to the same age, and my brother gave up the ghost even before that. And I'm not sure that there is a cure for regret. I suspect not.

She stopped typing. If she'd been using pen and paper, she would have screwed the paper up in disgust, but there wasn't a satisfying equivalent with e-mail, seeing as everything was designed to stop you making a mistake. She needed a fuck-it key, something that made a satisfying ka-boom noise when you thumped it.

One thing the last couple of years has taught me is that there's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he'd made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn't have anything to show for it. The

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.