Error Awareness Quotes

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

It may feel good to think you're right. But it's better to allow the possibility that you're wrong.

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.

You will get something wrong today, and tomorrow, and every day of your life. So will I, and everybody you know. You don’t have a choice about being wrong sometimes: mistakes will be your life-long companion. But you do have a choice about whether to approach your error in terror so you suppress, ignore and repeat it — or to make it your honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

People can't learn from mistakes if they don't see them.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.