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Quotes About Mistake

He nodded. "Of course, the male is so dominant and attractive." "That is not the male," I corrected. "The male eclectus is green, the color of his surroundings, meant to blend in and go unnoticed. It is the female which boasts the glorious scarlet plumage. You, my dear general, have made the very common mistake of believing, as so many others do, that the male of the species is the default.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Believe that you did wrong and continue to work hard for not being wrong
~ Dr. Parag Ravikant Kaveri
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
~ Amit Kalantri
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
~ Seneca
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
~ William Irwin Thompson
I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
~ Mother Teresa
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
~ Adeline Knapp
Tú sabes que el único motivo de arrepentimiento, no ya para un asesino, sino para cualquiera, es el fracaso.
~ Javier Marías
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
~ Jay Inslee
Once, while traveling in the eastern edge of the district, he arrived at a small town late in the afternoon, jumped from the car, headed straight to the hotel, and invited everyone in the bar to have a drink—on him. Only after the bartender began pouring did Roosevelt think to ask where he was: Sharon, Connecticut, not only the wrong district but the wrong state. Undaunted, Roosevelt grinned and paid up; and then proceeded to reuse the story and the joke for years.
~ Jay Winik
It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Dünya, y?k?m?m? istiyorsa, baÅŸar?ma dikkat eder.Bir yanl??l??? pahal? öderim, ama bunu zaman?nda yakalarsam, bana öyle geliyor ki, cennette bile göbek at?lacakt?r.
~ Jean Genet
En 1915 je suis parti sans croire à la patrie. J'ai eu tort. Non pas de ne pas croire : de partir.
~ Jean Giono
Why else do you think the world destroyed itself?' 'It was an accident!' 'Yes, and who caused the accident? Men!
~ Jean Ure
Robert bowed to the inevitable. The queen's motto, 'I see all and speak nothing." was as well chosen as any motto could be. He had almost made his old mistake of confusing what Elizabeth said with what she would do.
~ Jeane Westin
And she'd believed, truly, that Javier wouldn't hurt them. What she wouldn't give to go back to that moment with Sebastián, to say anything else.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Batty had been blown up, drowned, smashed on the rocks, or some combination of the three. And it was all Skye's fault.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
God, Owen, what have you done?" asked Toby, stepping onto the lawn. "Why do things always get so screwed up with us?" Owen signed: Scared. "Me too.
~ Jeff Strand
because I was a lazy idiot and didn't bother to write down the crazy cool tuning I invented. Lesson learned.
~ Jeff Tweedy
Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin?
~ Elie Wiesel
There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.
~ Elizabeth Berg
It's not always a good idea, digging around in the past," he said. "I done that once. I went to see the girl who got away. And I remembered real soon why I let her get away.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Then you made an expensive error.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert