Quotes About Mistakes

Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say

I was trying not to think about all the ways I'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part. I had gotten used to the former and I hated going back to the latter.

In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

I do make mistakes (I keep a running tally in a special file) and it looked like I had made a big one.

the humans on the Station wouldn't have to think about what I was, a construct made of cloned human tissue, augments, anxiety, depression, and unfocused rage, a killing machine for whichever humans rented me, until I made a mistake and got my brain destroyed by my governor module.

There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.

We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it.

To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human. —Bob Goddard

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

Everyone was fallible. - Pg. 423

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion abused the independence granted them, those plans were sufficiently flexible to accommodate errors; that is, a large safety margin was left to ensure that mistakes would not develop into catastrophes.

Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing.

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

They didn't mean that the sins a parent might commit would be visited on their offspring. The words actually meant that the mistakes a parent made while they were bringing up their children would be visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation.

Creativity is the discipline you use when you don't know the answers, when you're traveling to parts unknown. On this type of journey, missteps are actually steps. Every mistake brings you closer to the solution.

The most frequent cause of failures in business is not people who answered the right questions incorrectly, but people who answered the wrong questions correctly. I have seen many companies "incrementalize" themselves into a corner, through a series of small—what appeared optimal—decisions, often based on erroneous assumptions.

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Life could not be lived backward. There was no undoing the regret, but she could make one last attempt to seek forgiveness.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away