Quotes About Mistake

His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O'Hara.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

As usual, I have reaped the bitter fruits of my own error- and must reap them to the end.

When a rake falls, he falls forever. <3

Because the forgiven one was always in the wrong. Forgiven didn't mean forgotten.

We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

Your initial mistake, my dear F'lar," and the Harper's voice was at its drollest, "was in providing salvation from the last imminent disaster in a scant three days by bringing up the Five Lost Weyrs. The Lord Holders really expect you to provide a second miracle in similar short order.

fashion. I'm sure he mistook you for one of those…

Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake.

I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.