But the biggest mistakes we've made by far, I've made not we've made, are mistakes of omission and not commission. I mean it's the things I knew enough to do, they were within my circle of competence, and I was sucking my thumb. And those are the ones that hurt. They don't show up any place.
And, to be perfectly frank, there have been times when members or leaders in the Church have simply made mistakes. There may have been things said or done that were not in harmony with our values, principles, or doctrine. I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us—His imperfect children—and imperfect people make mistakes.
And, to be perfectly frank, there have been times when members or leaders in the Church have simply made mistakes. There may have been things said or done that were not in harmony with our values, principles, or doctrine.
There’s a certain kind of thinking you can’t do by yourself because you have blind spots. You have a whole self-justifying, rationalizing edifice that supports all your mistakes. It’s often very easy for other people to see your mistakes but incredibly hard for you to see them.
You're uncomfortable with scientific skepticism. But the reason it developed is that the world is complicated. It's subtle. Everybody's first idea isn't necessarily right. Also, people are capable of self-deception. Scientists too. All sorts of socially abhorrent doctrines have at one time or another been supported by scientists, well-known scientists, famous brand-name scientists. And, of course, politicians. And respected religious leaders.
So the way you avoid the mistakes, or at least reduce the chance that you'll make one, is to be skeptical. You test the ideas. You check them out by rigorous standards of evidence.
If you aren't obsessed with your mistakes then you don't love the field enough to get better.
I didn't really know you, but the fact you were willing to admit you were wrong told me everything I needed to know.
Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."
Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
But we try to approach our work with humility about what we don’t know and the determination to learn from our mistakes.
I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.
Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Failure is not getting knocked down. Failure is not getting back up.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Just remember- when you think all is lost, the future remains.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Never say oops in the operating room.
We must recoil a little to the end we may leap the better.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Through others errors, a wise man corrects his own.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
They say, best men are molded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband. Measure for Measure Act V Sc. 1
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
No matter how long you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
The road to ruin is always in good repair; the travellers pay the expense of it.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
But the biggest mistakes we've made by far, I've made not we've made, are mistakes of omission and not commission. I mean it's the things I knew enough to do, they were within my circle of competence, and I was sucking my thumb. And those are the ones that hurt. They don't show up any place.
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