Quotes About Mistakes

If you're worrying about the past, you've got a good chance of screwing up the future.

We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong