Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Geisler

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

When you give up 13 walks, six hits and four errors in three innings, that's enough.

We had some very costly errors tonight that led to several unearned errors by Iola.

We're not putting anything together right now. We're not hitting or pitching real well, and we made some big errors that hurt us.

We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.

Too many errors and walks, the later it got the more errors and the more we threw it around. It was a win, but it wasn't a pretty win.

Orson Scott Card

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Nick Hornby

That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.

We compounded too many errors together. On the flip side, R.A. Long fought pitches off, found the holes and banged some big hits.

We only have a handful of errors and they've been made with nothing on the line.

When resumes come in, especially in this market, hiring managers aren't looking to find someone ... they are looking to disqualify someone. Errors and hype do that.

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.

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.

We need to work on getting some good wins. The league is loaded with good teams. We want to make the playoffs. Is it likely? It's possible ? we're just going to have to step it up come game day. Because we have a lot of speed we're going to play small ball. Defensively, we have to stop making errors ? not physical errors but mental mistakes.

I worry about the kids getting down. We need to stop making errors and get off of our heels.

Rene Preval

We have observed there have been gross errors and probably gigantic fraud.

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.

Virtually everything in that story was misleading and wrong. It was so full of errors that it's completely without merit.

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.

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.

We had different errors with people's votes not counting. It just wasn't working.

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.

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." ()

E. F. Schumacher

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

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.

William Shakespeare

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

We are our own worse enemy. If you take away one fourth of our errors we could win this match.

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.

Clarence Darrow

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

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.