What are you working on? Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time, I’m preparing my next mistake.”[“Woran arbeiten Sie?” wurde Herr K. gefragt. Herr K. antwortete: “Ich habe viel Mühe, ich bereite meinen nächsten Irrtum vor.”]
We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them…
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
The only mistake that a man invested with authority and power cannot make even once in his lifetime is to issue an order which he is not sure will be carried out.[El único error que no puede cometer ni una sola vez en toda su vida un hombre investido de autoridad y mando es impartir una orden que no esté seguro de que será cumplida.]
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.
The first Mistake in publick Business, is the going into it.
People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.
my mistakes are my life[Mes fautes sont ma vie.]
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
