Lorrie Moore Quotes

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels