mistakes quotes

  • He made too many wrong mistakes.

    -Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

    -Korzeniowski
      An Outcast of the Islands, pt.3, ch.2.

  • America makes prodigious mistakes, America has cummings thoroughly and perfectlyannihilated by that vast and painful process of Unthinking which may result in a minutebitof purelypersonal Feeling.Whichminutebit is Art. colossal faults, but onething 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.

    - e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
      The Enormous Room, ch.12. 1927  'Why I Like  America', in Vanity Fair, May.

  • Mistakes are a fact of life It is the response to error that counts.

    -Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr Giovanni
      Black Judgement,'Of Liberation', stanza16.

  • An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.

    -Werner Heisenberg
      Der Teil und das Ganze, translated by A  J Pomerans as Physics and Beyond (1971).

  • Well, people change and forget to tell each other. Too badcauses so many mistakes.

    - Lillian Florence Hellman
       Anna. Toys in the Attic, act 3.

  • A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

    -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
      Ulysses.

  • The human species is, to some extent, the result of mistakes which arrested our development and prevented us from assuming the somewhat unglamorous form of our primitive ancestors.

    -JonathanWolfe Miller
      The Body in Question.

  •    Thetechnologyofdecentralization can bethesaviouror assassin of contemporary and future society. The role of architects may be uncertain, but the role of architecture is not. In order to look forward society may sometimes haveto look back.This it should do inorder to learnfrom previous mistakes and oversights and to preclude similar eventualities in the future. This does not imply historical dependency, as some would assert. The symbiosis of architecture and technology should prevail, engendered by honesty and integrity. The task will not be easy.

    - Ian Murphy
      'The impact of the environment: the shock of the new', in Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw (eds) Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought (1993).

  • The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

    - Edward John Phelps
      In a speech given in London.

  • Thehistoryof science, likethehistoryof all humanideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activitiesperhaps the only onein which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.

    - Sir Karl Raimund Popper
      Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

  • Ifthere ever was a misnomer, it is'exact science'. Science has always been full of mistakes; they require a genius to correct them.Of course, we do not see our own mistakes. 838

    - Edward Teller
    Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics.

  • We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral societynot a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

    - Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
      Speech, Zurich University,14 Mar.

  • In judging paintings, you should consider whether the first impression pleases the eye and whether the artist has followed the rules; as for the rest, everyone makes some mistakes.

    -Tintoretto real name Jacopo Robusti
    Quoted in Carlo Ridolfi Life ofTintoretto (1642).

  • How anyone can fear that the British electorate, whatever mistakesitcanmake or maycondone, canever go too far or too fast is incomprehensible† The Labour Party, when in due course it comes to be entrusted with power, will naturally not want to do everything at once. Once we facethenecessityof putting our principles into execution from one end of the kingdom to the other, the inevitabilityof gradualness cannot failtobe appreciated.

    - SidneyJames Webb
      Labour Party Conference, 26 Jun.

  • Experience isthename everyonegivestotheir mistakes.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      Dumby. LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3.

  • The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

    - Frank Lloyd Wright
      In the NewYorkTimes, 4 Oct.

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