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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines." | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation." | |
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C. E. Ares
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| "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." | |
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H. H. Munro (Saki)
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| "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." | |
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Hector Hugh Munro [Saki]
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| "A man and his wife, each in a different small plane, were out
enjoying a flight, when the husband committed a flight error. He was able
to recover, but his wife who was following him, crashed and was killed.
The husband was distraught, blaming himself for the accident. One day when
pleading with the Lord for forgiveness, he heard a voice saying "Jesus
died, even for dumb mistakes."" | |
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Truman Madsen
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| "A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to
profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." | |
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John C. Maxwell
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| "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn"t correct it, is
committing another mistake." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "A man who makes a mistake and doesn"t correct it, is making
another." | |
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Konfutse
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| "A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to
others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every
path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary.
Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart? If it
does, the path is good; if it doesn"t it is of no use." | |
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Carlos Castaneda
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| "A strange thing happened then. The Speaker agreed with her that she
had made a mistake that night, and she knew when he said the words that it
was true, that his judgement was correct. And yet she felt strangely
healed, as if simply speaking her mistake were enough to purge some of the
pain of it. For the first time, then, she caught a glimpse of what the
power of speaking might be. It wasn"t a matter of confession, penance, and
absolution, like the priests offered. It was something else entirely.
Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no
longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had
changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had
become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more
compassionate." | |
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Orson Scott Card
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| "A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice
without getting nervous." | |
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Jane Heard
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| "Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece
of the Forest that was left out by mistake." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much Afraid of
making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make
nothing." | |
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Sir John Lubbock
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| "How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your
money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever." | |
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David B. Norris
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| "I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones." | |
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John Peel
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| "If I had my life to live over again, I don"t think I would have the
strength." | |
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Flip Wilson
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| "If I had my life to live over I"d like to make more mistakes next
time. I"d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been
this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances.
I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice
cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I"d
have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I"m one of those people who live
sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I"ve had my
moments, and if I had to do it over again, I"d have more of them. In fact,
I"d try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of
living so many years ahead of each day." | |
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Jean de La Bruyére
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| "If I had to live my life again, I"d make the same mistakes, only
sooner." | |
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Tallulah Bankhead
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| "If it"s a woman, its caustic; if it"s a man, it"s
authoritative." | |
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Barbara Walters
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| "If you don"t make mistakes, you aren"t really trying." | |
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Coleman Randolph "Bean" Hawkins
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| "In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more
mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." | |
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Vincent van Gogh
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| "It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of
our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to
perceive." | |
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C. W. Leadbeater
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| "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do
only a little. Do what you can." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit
and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." | |
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Jessamyn West
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| "Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct
them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After
that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." | |
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Salvador Dali
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| "Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there,
feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with
the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We
think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and
the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along
in life this way." | |
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Lewis Thomas
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| "Mistakes are the inevitable accompaniment of the greatest gift given
to man, ? individual freedom of action. Let us be glad of the dignity of
our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to
recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a
glowing illumination along the pathway of our future. Mistakes are the
growing pains of wisdom. Without them there would be no individual growth,
no progress, no conquest." | |
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William George Jordan
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| "People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain
your mistakes than when you explain your successes." | |
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Wilbur N. Nesbit
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| "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit
them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." | |
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Steve Jobs
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| "The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the
universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The
player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is
always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he
never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for
ignorance." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the
biggest mistake of all ? doing nothing." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "The mistakes are all waiting to be made." | |
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Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
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| "The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know
when to cringe." | |
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Unknown
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| "The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does
anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the
same one twice." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Those who are one in food are one in life." | |
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Proverb
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| "To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial
disgrace." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "We made too many wrong mistakes." | |
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Yogi Berra
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| "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep
well?" I said, "No, I made a few mistakes"" | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Woman was God"s second mistake." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "You"re not the only one who"s made mistakes, but they"re the only
things that you can truly call your own." | |
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Billy Joel
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| "You"ve always made the mistake of being yourself." | |
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Eugene Ionesco
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