Quotes About Errors

A work of tragedy would rise to its true moral and edifying possibilities when the audience looked upon the hero's ghastly errors and crimes and was left with no option but to reach the terrifying conclusion: 'How easily I, too, might have done the same.

Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.

Never for a moment believe that the great body of citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will eventually be discovered. But even if the majority view is correct, as it often may be, it is more likely to be seen to be correct if it must defend itself against critics.

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I told them I wanted them to prepare by creating a list of discussion points to bring to our meetings. I wanted them to think about what they or the other managers in this room could do to improve the efficiency, productivity, customer service, cash flow, margin of errors, corporate culture, rate of employee turnover, employee morale, and, most important, the company's profitability.

apparently sees some value in the antiquity of the doctrine of ... This means absolutely nothing to me, for whom the Scriptures alone are my sole doctrinal authority, beyond the fact that this is just one more error of the ancient fathers. I could fill pages documenting other errors that the ancient fathers held and espoused. Response to The Classic Arminian View of Election, page 135

When bad things unexpectedly happen, as they always do, or when serious errors in judgment occur, as they do more often than most of us wish to admit, accountable companies and their executives take action to control the damage and set a new course for achieving results.

After presenting his completed sequences, he analysed the errors the others had made. You should never have thrown away the knave of hearts, he told Dina. That's why you lost. I took a chance.

Nonetheless, the producers, repeating past errors, exercised no discipline and drilled far beyond the system's capacity.

labs make errors, for instance, in collecting or handling a sample, by accidentally mixing or swapping samples, or by misinterpreting or incorrectly reporting results.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

Siamo sempre inclini a dimenticare ciò che abbiamo detto o fatto nel passato, anche per non avere il tremendo obbligo di rimanervi fedeli. Mi pare che altrimenti tutti dovremmo scoprirci pieni di errori, e, soprattutto, di contraddizioni, tra quello che ci siamo proposti di fare e quello che abbiamo fatto, tra quello che avremmo desiderato di essere e quello che ci siamo accontentati di essere in realtà. [Quaderno proibito]

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death.

It was a perfect system, so long as the universe was deterministic and so long as humans did not make any errors.