Quotes About Mistakes

So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did a lot of things right, but we also did a lot of things wrong at that company. And so I've really learned focus is everything.

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

We know that in the Champions League and the knockout competitions, you can't make any mistakes.

I'm a competitor, and there's always some plays I'm going to look back on and want to have back.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.

You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we did was authentic.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the wrong people. And you've got to be careful with that. But he's redeemed himself and came back.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

I do think I had a big advantage for the first four years I was in broadcasting, that no one really saw me. One of the big disadvantages superstar players have is they go right to the 'A' game, or the studio. I got the obscurity, making mistakes, learning from them and surviving them.

I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.

I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

The case against Susan Rice has been building for years with little fanfare. Not surprising, the mainstream media reporters based at the U.N. have either ignored her mistakes or strategically covered them up.

Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do, and you make the mistake of relying on people.

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.