Quotes About Mistakes

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

Because they are so intimidated and worried about making mistakes, they simply don't do it.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Eisenhower studied his mistakes. "We are learning something every day, and in general do not make the same mistake twice."9 Ike learned to be tougher with subordinates such as Fredendall. "Officers that fail must be ruthlessly weeded out," Eisenhower wrote his old friend Leonard Gerow. "Considerations of friendship, family, kindness, and nice personality have nothing to do with the problem.… You must be tough.

They do not die ignorant of either their own follies or of life's worth. Instead, they die in the fullest possible knowledge of who they are, of what they lived for, of the mistakes that they have made.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I've made two mistakes, gentlemen. I've confided in a woman and I've slept in a bed.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

medical students at Harvard made significant errors5 when calculating the probability that a patient had cancer

What I miss most since computers is the existence of rough drafts. […]. I miss the mistakes, the words scribbled in the margin, the chaos, the arrows pointing all over the place – all those signs of movement, of life, of unresolved searching.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

I had the worst study habits in the history of college, until I found out what I was doing wrong: highlighting with black magic marker.

Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.

you've reached a place where many years of simple errors in judgment have compounded over time, and you're feeling it.

It's so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It's about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job is to make fewer mistakes than the enemy

if you're obsessively focused on trying not to make mistakes, it can take some of the soul out of your performance

There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even before we get up in the morning. We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it's tissue paper. And I think the times it's tissue paper are when you need to keep things to yourself. Or you can end up making a mistake that you'll regret forever.

too. So you see that all my big mistake did was to make for a better party because that's how mistakes are, they make for a kind of relaxation, at least on the part of those not making them.