Quotes About Mistake

If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else

The harried solicitor gripped the rim of his hat as he held it against his chest and peered anxiously at Amanda over the top of his spectacles. "Yes, Miss Darlington," he admitted meekly. "It was a grievous mistake made by one of our less experienced clerks. The letter had been misfiled under Darlingscott, a client

none carries more power than the moment when a leader signals vulnerability. As Dave Cooper says, I screwed that up are the most important words any leader can say.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

That sleepless guy wasn't a hero. He was a fool

slipped on a cognitive banana peel

Sherlock Holmes: the Arthur Conan Doyle character who declared, "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

You don't want to send the message that you'll be in relationship with her when she's "good," or "happy," but withhold your love and affection when she's not. Would you want to stay in that kind of a relationship? Wouldn't we advise our teenagers to avoid friends or partners who treat them like that when they've made a mistake?

The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.

Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore—but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed

because of her foolishness

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

How could my heart be so wrong?" "Because it was such a young heart.

couldn't. I knew the truth would cause you to hate me and I'd made the ghastly mistake of falling in love with you." He gave a caustic

But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Notre plus grande erreur fut de n'avoir pas planté le pieu au cœur du vampire : la finance.

I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.