1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

Sometimes I feel that the source of a sculpture's energy comes from the effort of trying to regain a sense of balance lost at some point when I lacked control or concentration or perhaps made an error of judgment.Such moments happen all the time in the making of a sculpture. Not to experience uncertainty or to make no mistakes would in a sense render the making of a sculpture pointless. Any new work should challenge my understanding of both how and why a sculpture should be made.

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

We are all a whole bunch of accidental products.

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.

Why be force to the law when you can be it's Master

Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing all your mistakes had consequences? Peter made mistakes all the time— he was thoughtless; he hurt people. But it never troubled him, not for a moment. He forgot all about it in an instant. That was being a boy.

All I ask the new year for is to fall silently into the spacesthat the last one left empty. Filling them with a hopethat tells me gently at dawnthat my simple love can cure even the most extraordinary heart and that my broken past is enough for each tomorrow that follows.Maybe it will even remind methat all the mistakes I will collect over the next yearare not as bad as the chances I missed in the last one.

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.