Quotes About Mistake

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology," Steve Jobs told the audience at Apple's 1997 Worldwide Developers Conference. "You can't start with the technology and try to figure out how you're going to try to sell it. I made this mistake probably more than anybody in this room, and I've got the scar tissue to prove it."[9] Today, "work backwards" is a mantra in Silicon Valley.

In the social sciences, "survivorship bias" is the common mistake of noting only those things that made it through some selection process while overlooking those that didn't.

Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.

Bosheit ist bloß eine Art Ungeschicklichkeit.

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

Make no mistake," the anthropologist Loren Eiseley once said. "Everything in the mind is in rat's country. It doesn't die.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

I made a mistake. I underestimated the influence of Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neocons; I vastly underestimated their disingenuousness and incompetence. So George W. Bush went to war again, and just the way the neocons wanted him to--without significant international backing.

APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offense.

Chris Darden made a huge error in asking O.

Reaction to error almost always creates another error.

LEGEND HERE The initial euphoria of being named commander in chief has long since passed for Washington, replaced by the fear that he has made a very big mistake. "I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulders and entered the ranks," he has written to a friend.

During the Brewers' playoff run in 2011, Ryan Braun stumbled rounding third on what would have been an inside-the-park home run. He got to third base, and coach Eddie Sedar was waving him around and Braunie got so excited that he just lost control, stumbled, and did a face-plant between third and home. He was tagged out, which was bad, but he drove in a run, and the Brewers won the game so everybody laughed about

My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin

To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.