Quotes About Making Good Mistakes

#1. The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Daniel Dennett

#2. Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#3. Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino

#4. With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

Jo Ann V. Glim

#5. I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

Mark Frauenfelder

#6. Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes.

Kimberly Karalius

#7. If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm
but that's a lie ... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

H.L. Mencken

#9. I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live

Paulo Coelho

#10. Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. The death of their two children isn't the erasure of two beings. It is the loss of God and the skies, it is the loss of the past and the future, of all their small-voiced words and their hearts.

A.S. Patric

#12. The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

Rob Chapman

#13. I'm just one of the many millions of lonely souls trying to live on the face of this earth. I'm trying to acquit myself without making too many mistakes. Now and then I may even be on top of things enough to try and do some good. That's all.

Jo Nesbo

#14. I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Julianne Moore

#15. It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

J. C. Macaulay

#16. None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.

Emi Iyalla

#17. She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

K. Martin Beckner

#18. I liked the shorthand we seemed to fall into when nobody else was around, the easy intimacy that had sprung up between us. I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned out to be so much more than he had expected. On

Jojo Moyes

#19. In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

Ray Kroc

#20. There's one good thing about making mistakes.' Thea turned to her with a smile. 'You learn not to make them again.

Amanda Hocking

#21. Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Tom Morello

#22. To be a good writer, become a good listener.

Cynthia Briggs

#23. Don't be afraid to screw up ! ... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Robben Ford

#24. What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.

Julia Glass

#25. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.

Anna Agoncillo

#26. If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

Guy Fieri