Quotes About Mistake

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.

I heard him say that he knew that he had been very stupid and that he would not be stupid again. Those were his very words, Mma, and I wrote them down on a piece of paper which we can keep in the office here and take out and wave at him some time in the future if we need to do so.

My old friend," he began, "is down below, his face we'll see no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

There were some things that one could stop, or try to stop, but it was a mistake to go through life trying to interfere in things that were beyond your control, or which were going to happen anyway, no matter what you did. A certain amount of acceptance—which was not the same thing as cowardice, or indifference—was necessary or you would spend your life burning up with annoyance and rage.

Number 7 opened last night. It was misnamed by five.

It's better to make a change now than to keep living your mistake simply because you worked hard to get there.

I acted hastily towards him. Haste is a poor counsellor: I acted wrongly.

But he isn't dead?' 'No, he isn't, as you can very well see. Instead of striking him between the sixth and seventh left rib, as your compatriots usually do, you must have struck higher or lower; and these lawyers, you know, are not easy to kill off.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

Failure indicates that energy has been poured into the wrong channel. It takes energy to fail.

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

An adventure is usually the penalty for lousy planning.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

we'll avoid your biggest mistake, by making sure smart phones and social media never comes into being.

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.

The worst mistake you can make is walking away from the person who actually stood there and waited for you.