That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role.
"You don't get mistakes this big based on stupidity alone, " says George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University.
We must have fair procedures so that we don't make mistakes.
What's more, with an audience-tested template of what works and what doesn't, costly mistakes can be avoided.
Joe Saluzzi from Themis Trading said, "you can't make those mistakes any more".
In 2011, Djokovic somehow managed to hit more powerful shots that landed closer to the lines, yet he didn't make more mistakes.
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You fall too far behind the guys like Pettitte, the good pitchers, they don't make enough mistakes where you can get back at them.
They showed a lot of heart, but we have to go back to the drawing-board and make sure we don't make these mistakes again.
He didn't make many mistakes from the back of the court.
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It doesn't make many mistakes.
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Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) can't afford any mistakes as it challenges a work force that had never seen the inside of an auto factory to launch five models in less than a year at one new plant--an unprecedented schedule for any North American automaker.
We have to be careful that we don't make some of the mistakes that we made in the past, having long-term contracts that didn't work out.
They haven't learnt from their mistakes which got us into this mess in the first place.
Blige certainly hasn't made too many mistakes on her journey from the Bronx to the big time.
"I'd want to share the failed experience of Maincampus so other entrepreneurs don't make the same mistakes, " says Kim.
As a director of BindView, Moores doesn't want the same mistakes made.
This was the rhetorical equivalent, forgive the football metaphor, of running out the clock: Obama clearly thinks he's ahead and just doesn't need to make mistakes.
As an incentive, participating merchants who use certain sales tax processing services get their tax collection costs subsidized and aren't held responsible for mistakes those services might make.
His expectation wasn't that we weren't going to make mistakes.
The executive board, which isn't known for admitting mistakes, could have selected just one sport and recommended that the full IOC rubber-stamp its decision, but officials said selecting three finalists would allow for a fairer process.
It's expensive at a time when there's no money to spare, it's complex at a time when politicians need to keep an eye on other things, it can be got very wrong at a time you really can't afford to make mistakes.
Once consumers control their medical destiny, hospitals and others will be more careful, and paying for medical errors and infections will begin to be paid by those who are responsible, or better yet, since they won't be reimbursed for mistakes, the mistakes will quit happening.
We didn't do that, made mistakes in the build-up to the goal and it cost us.
You learn by doing it, and you can't be afraid to make mistakes, because, certainly, I've made them.
"Most of those mistakes won't be fatal, " says Sheila Dunn, a retired microbiologist whose gardens, in Weaverville, N.
In addition, new procedures were implemented last year to ensure that these mistakes won't be made in the future.
But he soon realized he needed to confront the powerful doctors who don't like to admit to mistakes or that those mistakes cost lives.
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