Ann Beattie Quotes

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

You always learn something from mistakes.

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

I've made mistakes but we all have to learn from time to time.

To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.

You learn from the mistakes you make.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

You got to be bad before you're good.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

We all played bad before we played good.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

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