Mistakes Quotations
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| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | |||
| - Scott Adams | |||
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| Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. | |||
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| Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one. | |||
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| Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting." | |||
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| Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties. | |||
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| Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. | |||
| - Francis Bacon | |||
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| If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. | |||
| - Tallulah Bankhead | |||
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| An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. | |||
| - Niels Bohr | |||
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| Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. | |||
| - Napoleon Bonaparte | |||
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| As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. | |||
| - Mel Brooks | |||
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| Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. | |||
| - Pearl S. Buck | |||
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| Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. | |||
| - Dr. David M. Burns | |||
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| Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. | |||
| - Marcus Cato | |||
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| We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. | |||
| - Cicero | |||
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| Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. | |||
| - Confucius | |||
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| Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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| Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. | |||
| - Henry S. Haskins | |||
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| Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. | |||
| - Cullen Hightower | |||
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| The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | |||
| - Franklin P. Jones | |||
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| A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. | |||
| - James Joyce | |||
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| While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. | |||
| - Henry C. Link | |||
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| Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. | |||
| - Sophia Loren | |||
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| Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? | |||
| - Peter McWilliams | |||
| To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. | |||
| - Peter McWilliams | |||
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| If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. | |||
| - Mary Pickford | |||
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| A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. | |||
| - Alexander Pope | |||
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| The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. | |||
| - John Powell | |||
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| We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. | |||
| - Dan Quayle | |||
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| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. | |||
| - Eli Siegel | |||
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| I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. | |||
| - Igor Stravinsky | |||
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| If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. | |||
| - Rabindranath Tagore | |||
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| Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. | |||
| - Phyllis Theroux | |||
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| One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. | |||
| - Bill Vaughan | |||
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| It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own. | |||
| - Jessamyn West | |||
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| Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
| Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||