Quotes About Errors

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

So the insurgency was born in a perfect storm of American errors--not establishing order; not providing the semblance of any government; confirming to the Sunnis who had once lorded it over Iraq's Shia majority that they were officially the underdogs; and throwing hundreds of thousands of soldiers onto the streets in an economy where the jobless rate was around 50 percent, while simultaneously ensuring that there was an unlimited supply of weaponry at hand for those angry young men.

As education and creativity researcher and author Sir Ken Robinson puts it, "We are educating people out of their creativity." Another major factor is that, for years, organizational management has been developing methods for increasing productivity and minimizing risk and errors that tend to stifle creative experimentation.

Ironically, in attempting to minimize risk and reduce errors, GM's emphasis on regimented systems stymied innovation.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Expertise in any given single area is not enough to guarantee either prudent policies or the avoidance of blunders.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

Sometimes even good old Homer nods.

Faults are soon copied.

in statesmanship, too great a preoccupation to avoid the errors of the past makes it likely that you will fall into the errors of the present.

The most common prepositional error is forgetting that the noun or pronoun in a prepositional phrase is the object of the preposition. The object of the preposition must be expressed in the objective case. Who can forget Jane Russell's line, in a 1970s Playtex ad, for a bra "for we full-figured gals." The preposition for mandates the pronoun us. But, then, Russell never was known for her pronouns.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Without a friend, what were humanity, To hunt our errors up with a good grace? Consoling us with—'Would you had thought twice! Ah, if you had but follow'd my advice!

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word. I thought God gave everyone free will. Which would presumably - and evidently - include the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another. Stop making me think. I'm believing over here.

Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.