Error Acceptance Quotes

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

Nobody has the right to negatively judge a player like Balotelli, as people can make mistakes.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

There's times when I go, 'We should have done a bunch of videos.'...Regardless of mistakes we've made, we made 'em, and we own 'em.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

I take risks; sometimes I lose the ball. It happens. This is the football.

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

If we want the best judgment of our intelligence personnel, we have to accept the fact that they will be wrong sometimes.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.