Quotes About Mistakes

Dig a little, he continues. Search. Examine. Sculpt from the inside out, and not the other way around. Don't be afraid to screw up along the way.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

Mr. Freeman thinks I need to find my feelings. How can I not find them? They are chewing me alive like an infestation of thoughts, shame, mistakes. I squeeze my eyes shut. Jeans that fit, that's a good start. I have to stay away from the closet, go to all my classes. I will make myself normal. Forget the rest of it

Don't be so hard on yourself. Art is about making mistakes and learning from them.

Living proof of indiscretions makes bad company on the morning after.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.