Quotes About Mistake

We were not made for this killing thing, I swear. Back up. Big mistake.

Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.

By pure mistake, his implementation is sometimes more pure than his intentions. But mostly it is the other way around. Mostly he shouts, "Praise be!" while the back of his hand knocks you flat.

The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person's reckless mistake. Only after it's a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice. Mom was the unknown soldier.

The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person's reckless mistake. Only after it's a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something.

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

No man wants to hear he has been a fool.

When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!

You could only remember your own mistake so as not to repeat it next time.

I had convinced myself I had become safe enough in Rio to see her. I realized now I'd been wrong. The disease I carried was still communicable.

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity

ANYTIME YOU MAKE A DECISION AND IT DOESN'T TURN OUT WELL or you find an alternative that would have turned out better, you're a candidate for regret.

From the perspective of a model of decision making that is future oriented, being sensitive to sunk costs is a mistake.

I tried to take it back, but it was too late.

real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.

It seemed to him that if the wrong man stepped into the marriage-loop with a woman, it was a noose instead of a ring.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger – no supper, no breakfast.

There's always someone at fault, which is not the same as blame.

Many a man inlove with a dimple makes the mistake of marring the whole Girl

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success. "Success," said IBM founder T. J. Watson, "is on the far side of failure." But not to acknowledge a mistake, not to correct it and learn from it, is a mistake of a different order. It usually puts a person on a self-deceiving, self-justifying path, often involving rationalization (rational lies) to

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

we need to consider one other aspect of renewal as it applies to the unique human endowment that directs this upward movement—our conscience. In the words of Madame de Staël, "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it: but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it—immediately. Don't get into a blaming, accusing mode. Work on things you have control over. Work on you. On be.