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Quotes About Mistakes

I soon realised I was making a fool of myself...things like that happen when you are in love with the wrong person. Worse things. things you never forgive yourself for... ...I'll blame myself for as long as I live. It's you I love and always will.
~ Dodie Smith
The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more from our failures than from our successes. With success, sure, we are pleased, but we often have no idea why we succeeded. With failure, it is often possible to figure out why, to ensure that it will never happen again.
~ Donald A. Norman
We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more from our failures than from our successes.
~ Donald A. Norman
Muchas equivocaciones se deben a caprichos del pensamiento humano, a menudo porque la gente tiende a fiarse de las experiencias que recuerda, en lugar de utilizar un análisis sistemático.
~ Donald A. Norman
Los errores deben ser fáciles de detectar, deben tener unas consecuencias mínimas y, de ser posible, sus efectos deben ser reversibles.
~ Donald A. Norman
First, most accidents do not have a single cause: there are usually multiple things that went wrong, multiple events that, had any one of them not occurred, would have prevented the accident.
~ Donald A. Norman
I made a single decision early on. I decided I wouldn't judge my kids. No matter what they told me, I wouldn't judge them. I might have to discipline them, but I wouldn't make them feel like lesser people for their mistakes. And because of that, they learned to trust me with their deepest thoughts... We taught them the basics early. But the older they got, the more I listened without judgment as they figured out how to apply wisdom in their own lives. And they've turned out well.
~ Donald Miller
5 Mistakes People Make with Their First Million Dollars"—
~ Donald Miller
But people are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes. And trust, of course, is the essential building block for successful relationships.
~ Donald T. Phillips
His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.
~ Donna Andrews
Well - think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, made no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no - hang on - this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
Puedes equivocarte de camino y que aun así este te lleve a donde quieres ir. O, viceversa, a veces puedes hacerlo todo mal y aun así sale bien.
~ Donna Tartt
Forgive me for for all the things that i did, but mostly for all the things i didn't do
~ Donna Tartt
Give my life, gladly! I will never love any person on the earth like Katya again—not even close. She was the one. I would die and be happy for only one day with her. But—" pushing his sleeve back down—"you should never get a person's name tattooed on you, because then you lose the person. I was too young to know that when I got the tattoo.
~ Donna Tartt
What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no—hang on—this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
Forgive me for all the things I did, but mostly for the things I didn't
~ Donna Tartt
Well—think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no—hang on—this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?
~ Donna Tartt
nobody is perfect. Anyone can backslide, even with the best of intentions. That be what the road to hell is paved with, they say.
~ J.A. Konrath
The idea that errors were stepping-stones to truth never once occurred to me
~ Unknown
Of course, sir. There won't be any screwups. Hell, Colonel, there are always screwups in any operation. Let's just keep them within reason.
~ Jack Campbell