Quotes About Mistake

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

He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.

If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we

Rewind! Do over! Take it back!

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

I admit I was the guy who removed all the bullets from the assault rifle's extended magazine and then filled it with pot. But now I realize that was wrong because marijuana is dangerous.

Hey, did you know that in the parking diagram on Tampa International's website, they misspelled Lindbergh's name? Instills that confidence in flying.

Serge looked up. 'I hope you've learned your lesson.' They nodded quickly and hard. 'And that lesson,' said Serge, 'is that you never really know whom you're fucking with, so best not to do it at all.

When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

I missed one meeting probably out of my whole career. But at the end of the day, once again, we're not perfect.

When a safety makes a mistake in the middle of the field, everybody should notice.

What happens at McGregor's team is that they all talk like Conor McGregor but they don't do what he does. They try to do it. They gain notoriety by talking, and that's a mistake.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author's regrets.)

And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

Do you think we're making a mistake? snapped the Bishop. Not at all, said Dom Cristao. I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness. Fortunately, said the Bishop, humankind isn't the judge that matters. And now I intend to pray for this boy, since medical science has obviously reached the boundary of its competence.

I stole their future from them; I can only begin to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

A kiss may ruin a human life

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.