Quotes About Mistakes

Over and over and over. We make the same mistakes. Kingdoms do the same stupid things. Rulers fail their people time and time again. Men continue to hurt and hate and die and kill!

Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again. That was the answer. It all swept over him, lives lived, mistakes made, love changing everything. He saw the entire world in his mind's eye, lit by the glow in his hand. He remembered lives, hundreds of them, thousands of them, stretching to infinity. He remembered love, and peace, and joy, and hope.

Bridgewater's Ray Dalio, for example, places a high premium on what he calls "radical open-mindedness," by which he means something qualitatively beyond a mere willingness to listen to a competing view when and if it comes to call. "To be radically open-minded," he says, "you need to be so open to the possibility that you might be making a mistake and/or that you have a weakness that you encourage others to tell you so.

Get a safe job. Don't make mistakes. Don't take risks.

Necesitamos un sistema educativo que le enseñe a la gente a aprender de sus errores, en lugar de que los castigue por cometerlos.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

You can reduce your anxiety somewhat by facing the fact that there isn't a mechanic alive who doesn't louse up a job once in a while. The main difference between you and the commercial mechanics is that when they do it you don't hear about it—just pay for it, in additional costs prorated through all your bills. When you make the mistakes yourself, you at least get the benefit of some education.

No comprendí entonces lo estúpidas que son las suposiciones apresuradas.

we are rational animals, but we are imperfectly rational. We are prone to making intellectual and moral mistakes and capable of behaving grossly unreasonably—especially when deflected by powerful emotions that run contrary to the demands of reasonableness.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure that you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all…You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself.

Remember that anything important can't really be learned in the classroom. It must be learned by taking action, making mistakes, and then correcting them. That's when wisdom sets in.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes.

Most teachers lack real-world experience—they have not done what they teach. They haven't actually experienced what they teach, made mistakes, learned from those mistakes, and applied what they've learned as they continue to practice and get better and better. Schools teach us to read and memorize. I believe that 'studying' is the key to applying what we learn. Kim and I meet with our Advisors several times a year and we choose books to read and study together.

Often, they mindlessly repeat what they have been told. Ideas such as "diversify" or "your home is an asset." "Your home is your biggest investment." "You get a tax break for going into greater debt." "Get a safe job." "Don't make mistakes." "Don't take risks.

A little fear can be a healthy thing, but we shouldn't live in fear of making mistakes.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them.

To me, one of the primary reasons E's and S's have difficulty moving to the B and I side is because they are too afraid of making mistakes.

It's only losers who think that winners never lose, who think that mistakes must be avoided at all costs. Mistakes are priceless opportunities to learn essential lessons.

Learning by making mistakes through trial and error is more and more important. Book learning is proving to be less valuable in the real world.

Anne: But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. Marilla: I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

Oh, don't you see? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla, said Anne repentantly. I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.