Quotes about error
errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
errors obvious
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Clint Eastwood
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
errors speech opinion
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? Bertrand Russell
errors crank
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
errors commit ifs
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
error guys preserve side
The appellate guys on one side try not to err, the appellate guys on the other try to preserve error if it happens.
errors good last night nine played score six today walked walking win
We played pretty good defense, we didn't make any errors. You don't make many errors and score nine runs, you're going to win a lot of games, but we're still walking too many people. Last night we walked nine and today we walked six more. You can't walk that many guys." ()
errors hitting lax
We had only two hitting errors in one game, then 15 in another. We're getting better at some things, but then we get lax at the other things.
error fourth held instead ourselves ran run turns
We had one out and we ran ourselves out of the inning, and then we could have held them without a run in the fourth inning, but instead we make an error and it turns into a three-run inning.
errors hitting less minimize team trying whatever win
We were hitting well. We were just trying to minimize errors. ... At the end of a rally-scoring match, whatever team makes less errors is going to win the game, and we made less than them.
errors full misleading virtually
Virtually everything in that story was misleading and wrong. It was so full of errors that it's completely without merit.
error execute level margin talent
With the talent level we have right now, our margin of error is small. We can't get away with the same things we could have when our talent level was that much higher. We need to execute things better to make up for the talent we don't have.
errors kids stop worry
I worry about the kids getting down. We need to stop making errors and get off of our heels.
errors gigantic gross observed
We have observed there have been gross errors and probably gigantic fraud. Rene Preval
error fed margin raising rates until yield
Will the Fed keep raising rates until the yield curve's inverted? There's not much margin for error here,
error great hitting tournament
Mallory had a great tournament and she is just a sophomore. She only had one hitting error in all of the games, which is pretty amazing.
errors tendencies dangerous
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. B. H. Liddell Hart
errors five four gave hit hits runners runs second six third three twice walks
We gave up five runs on three errors, four walks and one hit in the first inning and never recovered. We had six errors and four hits for the night. We had runners at second and third twice but couldn't score.
errors helping information lax level practices reported reports skills understand
We are now getting reports of a level of operational errors that had not been previously reported in the past. Because we are getting this information it is now helping us understand what are some of the lax practices and skills that need to be sharpened.
errors votes
We had different errors with people's votes not counting. It just wasn't working.
errors game pitch
Those are our staples-we pitch and play defense. That's about as many errors as we've made in a game all year, especially at home.
errors score team
I was very pleased. We didn't have as many team errors as well, and the score showed it.
errors few good guy playing points sloppy
I was the guy making all the errors and he was not. He was playing a few good shots. I had a few sloppy points here and there. He made me doubt. Roger Federer
errors intellectual environmental
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income. E. F. Schumacher
errors things-in-life missing
If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
errors mirrors should
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error. William Shakespeare
errors fourth win worse
We are our own worse enemy. If you take away one fourth of our errors we could win this match.
error innocent man mind people regard woman
If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people Lord Chesterfield
error innings maybe six start
Just when you think it's going to be easy, it's not. We had one error through six innings and then maybe we just start pressing late.