Mistakes Quotes

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.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

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 nurturing family.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.