Quotes About Mistakes

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz

It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

She had screwed up, not him. It made her sad that her vast experience, even her marathon dances with men, hadn't left her any the wiser.

Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst were all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.

You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. "And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.

Während die Starken sich ruhig einmal irren können, ohne etwas zu verlieren, weil selbst die mächtigsten Menschen noch Menschen sind - ja sogar ihre Irrtümer machen sie nur noch menschlicher -, darf sich, wer sich als Allmacht aufspielt, niemals irren, weil es entweder Allmacht ist oder gar nichts.

Would you take credit for someone else's achievement when you had nothing to do with that achievement?" Ilya asked. "No." "Then don't take credit for someone else's mistakes.

The fact is that there are people, good people who, not because they want to but all the same, fall in love with the wrong thing.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

What kind of parents are you? You lost one son, but you threw the other away.

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

Normally we try to avoid what we don't like. However, in a retreat, if we stay, we begin to see how our mental reactions actually make things harder or easier. The process highlights how opinionated and self-centered we are in familiar activities and how much we like to stay in comfortable routines. We resent being corrected as we make mistakes in learning the apparently arbitrary rules, and then we see how easily our egos are affronted.

She threw herself eagerly into the paths of unsuitable men.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

A necessary part of becoming a better decision-maker is learning from experience. Experience contains the lessons for improving future decisions. Resulting causes you to learn the wrong lessons.

Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

I can say that Nick the Greek lost a lot of money based on his beliefs—or, more accurately, because he ignored lots of feedback that his strategy was a losing one. He eventually went broke because he didn't recognize learning opportunities as they arose.

It is important to be passionate, but it is also important to combine the heart and the head. I have made mistakes in both my private and professional lives.

I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both on and off the pitch.