Quotes About Mistakes

errors and mistakes, however gross, in matters of opinion, if they are sincere, are to be pitied, but not punished nor laughed at. The blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied as the blindness of the eye; and there is neither jest nor guilt in a man's losing his way in either case. Charity bids us set him right if we can, by arguments and persuasions; but charity, at the same time, forbids, either to punish or ridicule his misfortune.

Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

Mais ici-bas, mieux vaut ne jamais avoir raison. C'est une chose qu'on vous fait ensuite toujours payer très cher.

While evil can never be banished from the human heart and mistakes can never be banished from human behavior, such outrages were rare on the American side. They were not rare—they were policy—on the Communist side. Ignoring that fact only highlights the ignorance and bias of the anti-war movement.

Nih?e od nas ne uživa pri naštevanju svojih napak. V ve?ini jih raje prikrijemo. Ignoriramo njihov obstoj in se pretvarjamo pred seboj in drugimi ljudmi. Kaj so torej tisti madeži na našem zna?aju, ki jih ne želimo videti?

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

De mis disparates de juventud lo que más pena me da no es el haberlos cometido, sino el no poder volver a cometerlos.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

With VAR, the refereeing errors will be reduced, and therefore, we'll all be on equal terms. It will take a lot of the responsibility from the referees on vital decisions, like penalties and goals, and they will make far fewer mistakes.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.

Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

The coach needs to understand, when he's not teaching something the right way or he sees something wrong, he's got to be able to admit to his mistakes.

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.