Quotes About Error

But that's another error in the note," Klaus said. "It doesn't say un bearable, with a U. It says in bearable, with an I." " You are being unbearable, with a U," Violet cried. "And you are being stupid, with an S," Klaus snapped.

She wouldn't have to be lying to be wrong.

Everybody does something wrong at one time or another.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

To be sure—our discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will impact us and our safety for generations. It may completely unravel the entire Middle East forever.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

I've had ups and downs with my skin, but after some time, I've learned what works best and what products I need to stay away from.

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.