Mistakes Quotes

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
Frank lloyd wright - a doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect...
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
Richard forsyth - machine learning for expert systems - setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are...
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
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.
Author Unknown
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
Wilbur N. Nesbit
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.
Virginia Sati
We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.
Michael Joseph Savage
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Boh
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
Kimon Nicolaides
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.
Mick Lloyd Kerman
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.
Derwood Finche
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
Alexander Senturia
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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratliffe
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.
Dr. Dale E. Turne