Learning from Errors Quotes

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.

When you make mistakes during routines, it's not easy getting through them.

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.

When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

It is important to change, acknowledge, and accept our mistakes. It's important that we - this goes even for me - introspect and see the wrongs we have done. It's time we all grew up.

You will get something wrong today, and tomorrow, and every day of your life. So will I, and everybody you know. You don’t have a choice about being wrong sometimes: mistakes will be your life-long companion. But you do have a choice about whether to approach your error in terror so you suppress, ignore and repeat it — or to make it your honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.

Look, I'm my own worst critic. I've made mistakes in areas that I need to improve - most notably, turning the ball over.

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

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.