Quotes About Mistake

The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.'

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.

Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid.

Pain gives you the memory of things you shouldn't do.

He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.

Doing the wrong thing can be corrected. Being wrong, on the other hand, is a fatal flaw. When being who we are—our essence—is deemed wrong, everything we touch becomes contaminated. Our innate wrongness becomes the filter through which we see the world and measure our worth, value, and deservedness.

thinking that I had done something

The negative ego reminds you of every slight, every hurt, and every mistake, as well as of the insufficiency of your responses in order to install and maintain a fear-based reality.

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.

Some science guy creating them in the lab." Her voice darkened. "One day they're going to make a mistake—a big one—and mutant clone cows are going to revolt and start eating people. You wait and see.

Two different cops, and both of them fucked up the case. What are they using to train them in Chicago—old videos of the Three Boobs?" "I think that's Stooges," Roarke murmured.

We'll take the laundry in for anal.

demonstrate she attempted to slam her fist on her knee, missed and caught the medic in the crotch.

Roarke winced and began the delicate task of extracting his feet from his mouth.