Mistakes Quotes

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
John oliver hobbes - men heap together the mistakes of their lives and...
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
Dan mckinnon - remember your past mistakes just long enough to...
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.
Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted W. Engstrom
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.
Bill Cosby, Time Flies
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
Donald Foste
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
Wilbur N. Nesbit
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Anonymous
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Denis Watley
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on.
Peter McWilliams
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
W. E. Gladstone
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
Kimon Nicolaides
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratliffe
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Watley
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross