Famous Quotes & Sayings

We made too many errors tonight and we can't keep playing sloppy and win, especially when we get to the region games. On the positive side, we scored in every inning but one.

We made too many errors and did not have the sticks to back ourselves up.

We made some mental errors tonight that we need to get rid of. We are just real happy right now to be 5-0.

We made some mental errors and they capitalized. It took us a while to get our composure, and we were playing catch-up.

Daniel Keys Moran

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Daniel Kahneman

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Alexander Pope

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Donald Berwick

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Duke of Wellington

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Alphonsus Liguori

Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors

Alvin Toffler

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

Dale Carnegie

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

Alveda King

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

Andrew Sullivan

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Andrew Solomon

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Ameen Rihani

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

Ambrose Bierce

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

Ambrose Bierce

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

If those players were still here performing and producing, I wouldn't be here. But those errors were made, and that's a situation we have to get fixed.

We had a lot of penalties and mental errors and we had to fight through that and the field conditions.

We had a lot of mental errors today, and sometimes that happens when you are playing from behind. We're a young team, but that's not an excuse.

We made a lot of mental errors and we didn't get off to a good start defensively.

We made a lot of errors early, then we battled back.

We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

We made all sorts of errors in the first game. We were nervous. We just settled down after that and played the way we can. There wasn't anything magical about it, we just played better.

We made a few errors in the field. And not being able to score runs didn't help us either.

Julia Roberts

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

We're just finding ways to win. One game we'll play real well defensively, and then in that second game (Monday) we made five errors and still found a way to win the game.

Edgar Allan Poe

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

Edward Abbey

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

Dick Taylor

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.