Quotes About Mistakes

There have been many ups and downs; I made a few mistakes and learnt from them.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

Failure has gone to his head.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.

A lot of people I've grown up with have got themselves in sticky situations.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

People always send me notes saying they'd love to be a speaker, but they could 'never speak as well as you do!' I'm like, 'Girl, of course you won't. You're just starting out... everyone stinks when they start!'

I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.