Quotes About Mistake

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

The tragedy is that the architects, by making a premature decision, multiplied the development effort enormously.

What would happen if you allowed a bug to slip through a module, and it cost your company $10,000? The nonprofessional would shrug his shoulders, say "stuff happens," and start writing the next module. The professional would write the company a check for $10,000!

So I'd gotten rid of that negativity and I'd show, "Well, here's something done right. Here's the mistake, but here's how to fix the mistake.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

KEYS TO POWER Everyone has insecurities. When you show yourself in the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity. This is to be expected. You cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others. With those above you, however, you must take a different approach: When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

It is an extremely human response to not look inward after a mistake or crime, but rather to look outward and to affix blame and guilt on a convenient object.

Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable. The mistake does not vanish with an apology; it deepens and festers. Better to cut it off instantly, distract attention from yourself, and focus attention on a convenient scapegoat before people have time to ponder your responsibility or your possible incompetence.

analyze them in terms of the 48 laws of power, and you extract from them a lesson and an oath: "I shall never repeat such a mistake; I shall

On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.

The Hitler diaries affair is a monument to the cock-up theory of history.

We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her crosswise, or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.

It was always a mistake to choose a pillow-friend who did not wear the shawl. Especially if you were fool enough to let her take the lead.

Un soldado que se culpa por la muerte de sus compañeros en la batalla es un necio.

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mistaken for it, and if it could not, when seen from the outside, appear as progress, genius, hope, and improvement, doubtless no one would want to be stupid, and there would be no stupidity.

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake.

Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair. What are you doing here? she asked Perry. Stovepipe Town made a mistake. Oh, looking for a round square, said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.

I think it would be charitable to believe that he was mistaken about

Bir ÅŸey için cezaland?r?ld?ysan, onun için piÅŸman olman gerekmez.

one sin demands another to cover it.