- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes Quotes
On mistakes made, owned, and left behind.
This collection focuses on mistakes as part of learning - practicing a new piece and inevitably getting parts of it wrong along the way. Related reading: Better.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've all made mistakes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
- Professionalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's football - fans are passionate about it, and sometimes it's difficult for players to take, but we are good men, and we all make mistakes, and we are footballers.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020