Error Analysis Quotes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.

You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you did wrong.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

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.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

You learn more from the negative things.

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

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.

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

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

Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.

Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.