mistake

“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.” — Confucius

“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” — Paulo Coelho

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions (and progress).” — Catherine Cook

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde

“Make mistakes, just don’t make them permanent.” — James Clear

“Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!” — Ms. Frizzle

“It doesn’t matter if I don’t succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.” — Linda Evans

“Never make a permanent mistake to solve a temporary problem.” ― Damon Suede, Bad Idea

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Groucho Marx 1

“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.” — Harold J. Smith


Once is a mistake. Twice is a choice. Three times is a decision.


「知錯」是一種智慧,「糾錯」是一種勇氣,「除錯」則是一連串假設及驗證的過程。


Your goal is not to avoid making mistakes, but to avoid making the same mistake and keep making new mistakes.


A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. Every single failure is a lesson. It only becomes real failure if you learn nothing from it.


When you make a mistake, recognize it, acknowledge/admit it, learn from it, then let it go (forget it).

Footnotes

  1. 「以銅為鏡,可以正衣冠;以史為鏡,可以知興替;以人為鏡,可以明得失」— 唐太宗

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