Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.