Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

It is always better to be inefficient and correct than to be incorrect and efficient.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.