Quotes About Mistakes

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'

Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.

It's live television. People make mistakes and Steve Harvey was very gracious to apologize. I accept his apology and I think it speaks a lot about his character.

I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.

I have made so many mistakes in life, my temper and behavior all this doesn't do any good to anyone.

I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

We needed an over-confident Ted, not a defensive Ted, because overconfidence breeds mistakes, and that's just what we needed our Ted to make in order catch him.

A disorganized killer is much more impulsive and haphazard. Disorganized killers make mistakes, leave fingerprints, fail to keep from being seen. Organized killers consider murder to be an art that they are trying to perfect. They don't make mistakes.

It was the conundrum of every parent with a boy becoming a young man—loving your child enough to let him make his own decisions and his own mistakes, and not stepping in to rescue him.

The pursuit of fewer errors is sensible; the insistence on none at all, counterproductive.

Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.' Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears. Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do -about- the mistake that shows who we are. [Dr. Margot Bamborough to Gloria Conti]