Madison Smartt Bell Quotes

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That is the art of democracy. That is the art of citizenship.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

I'm paying for a mistake I made

it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

How can we get the most from every mistake we make?

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

It’s not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It’s about who learned from it.

I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.