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Quotes About Error

Das einzige Mittel, den Irrtum zu vermeiden, ist die Unwissenheit.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.
~ Marc Cherry
Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.
~ Robert I. Sutton
All we know so far is what doesn't work.
~ Richard P. Feynman
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
~ Benjamin Carson
When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.
~ Brad Grey
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
~ Eric Ries
Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.
~ George Carlin
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
~ Jasper Fforde
All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.
~ Mario Andretti
It's a different style of golf; that stands out for sure when you come over to America. The style of play and the golf courses in America. Most golf courses in America either stretch your game, and test different elements of your game and the margins for error are smaller.
~ Tommy Fleetwood
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
~ William Jennings Bryan
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
There is no original truth, only original error.
~ Gaston Bachelard
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
~ Timothy Geithner
Fostering an atmosphere that doesn't allow for error simply makes people defensive.
~ Tom DeMarco
But the picture of when we reason best that emerges from the research is far away from the classic image of rationality - the wise scholar alone in a study. Rather, we avoid error when we reason in groups - allowing the push and pull of argumentation to get us out of holes that we'd otherwise dig ourselves into.
~ Unknown
A metaphor carries an idea from one area of thought to another. Furniture can have feminine legs; a flower is the day's eye (daisy); an error glares at you; drinks are soft; cash is hard; our lives have a spring and an autumn.
~ Unknown
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
~ Tony Snow
Los locos son una terrible equivocación de la Naturaleza; son las faltas de ortografía de Dios.
~ Unknown
Ah! Qué terrible es el sino de los pobres locos, esos 'renglones torcidos', esos yerros, esas faltas de ortografía del Creador, como los llamaba 'el Autor de la Teoría de los Nueve Mundos', ignorante de que él era uno de los más torcidos de todos los renglones de la caligrafía divina!
~ Unknown
But, like always, Meowth made a mistake. Snap was good at capturing Pokémon — on film. He was a photographer, not a Pokémon trainer.
~ Unknown
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
~ Tryon Edwards