Mistake Quotes - Page 30

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.

Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.