Quotes About Mistakes

It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up before you even try.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. Feldenkrais didn't correct errors or "fix" people.

We detect mistakes with our orbital frontal cortex, part of the frontal lobe, on the underside of the brain, just behind our eyes. Scans show that the more obsessive a person is, the more activated the orbital frontal cortex is.

The difference is that bad engineers will soon be checked by the results of their poor judgments through the inoperability, unreliability, or high cost of what they create. (Physical reality is a stern taskmaster!) By contrast, bad doctors-such is the way of the world-can often rely on the gullibility, suggestibility, fear, and desperation of their clients to get themselves off the hook. And, of course, the old adage still holds as ever: doctors get to bury their mistakes.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynanm??t?r. ?nsan?n içinde ifade edilmez bir eksiklik duygusu kal?r. Her ?ey ba?ka türlü olabilirdi sanki. Bütün bu oyunlar bu kadar da kötü oynanmayabilirdi.

After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything more than survive and continue its cycle of errors.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them -- "teachable moments".

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Why has such a good plan never occurred to me before? All the suffering I have gone through has been because of my own stupidity.

Learning from your mistakes does not happen automatically, it requires thinking and reflection.

You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes—a reflex action caused by self-disgust.