Error Impact Quotes

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Every time someone makes a mistake, and mistakes are made in this business, careers are ruined.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

The blunders of a doctor are felt not by himself but by others.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A steady hand in military affairs is more requisite than in peace, because an error committed in war may prove irremediable.

If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

Obviously, when you drop a ball early in the game, it could be worse. You can go on to drop many more balls or stuff like that.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

As a goalkeeper, if you make 10 world-class saves but then miss one shot, or you let in a pass, you're there in the highlights afterwards - and, let's be honest: that is what most people see.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

Freak mistakes happen sometimes as a goalkeeper that if you make them, then it's always going to bite you.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?