The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.