1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don’t let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

I’d rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.

Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I’ll show you a fool.

A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you.

Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.

On this life you will act like a scientist,you need to keep experimenting and do some mistakes, but in the end you will find out how to make things so perfect ...

Life," said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.