Mistakes Quotes
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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
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“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”
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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
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“I'm not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.”
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“I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
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“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
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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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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
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“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
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“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
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“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
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“Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.”
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”
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“I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.”
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
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“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”
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“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
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“Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.”
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“Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.”
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“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
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“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
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“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
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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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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.”
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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
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“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.”
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“If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.”
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“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”
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“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
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“It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.”
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“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”
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“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
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“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
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“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”
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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
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“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”
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“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.”
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“Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.”
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“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
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“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”
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“It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.”
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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'”
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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
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“I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.”
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“Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.”
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“I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.”
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“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
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“I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.”
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“The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.”
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“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”
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“Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.”
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“When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.”
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“You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.”
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“Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”
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“It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.”
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“The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.”
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“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
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“Everyone makes mistakes; it's about the way you respond to it that's really important.”
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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
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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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“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.”
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“I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.”
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“If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.”
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“You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.”
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“It's OK to make mistakes. Just try not to make the same mistakes over.”
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“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
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“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.”
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“You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.”
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“People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.”
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“There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.”
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“Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.”
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“You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions… Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.”
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“So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.”
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“The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.”
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“I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.”
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“I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.”
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“You will learn more from your failures than your successes - so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.”
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“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
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“To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.”
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“Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.”
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“The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.”
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“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”
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“The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.”
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“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.”
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“You learn from your mistakes.”
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“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”
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“Mistakes do happen and life goes on.”
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“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
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“Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.”
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“I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”
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“It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.”
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“Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.”
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“My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.”
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“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
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“Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.”
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“We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.”
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“'America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.' - e. e. cummings”
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“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.”
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“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
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“I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.”
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“If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.”
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“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.”
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“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
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“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
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“I want to become better, I don't want to let my mistakes define me.”
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“It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.”
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“By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.”
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“We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.”
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“The pressure of being a goalkeeper is one of those things that attracts a lot of people to the position, if you don't have that, if you don't enjoy that pressure, I don't think you're suited to playing goalkeeper. It's about being strong mentally, being able to see the difference between making honest mistake and silly mistakes.”
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“I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.”
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“My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.”
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“I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.”
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“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”
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“Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.”
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“Destiny doesn't make mistakes.”
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“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.”
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“You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.”
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“I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.”
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“I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.”
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“I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself.”
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“In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you shouldn't. And I think losing games is a good thing, because you learn more from when you lose than when you win.”
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“All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”
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“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
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“We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.”
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“I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.”
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“A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.”
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“As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.”
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“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
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“It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.”
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“The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.”
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“Nobody's perfect. We make mistakes, but the important thing is we learn from them and move forward.”
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“As a goalkeeper, you have to take risks even though at times you may make mistakes.”
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“You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.”
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“I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.”
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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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“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”
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“Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.”
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“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.”
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“I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.”
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“If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.”
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“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.”
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“My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.”
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“I made my fair share of mistakes.”
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“If you rely on political factions to promote men to office, the people will work to develop instrumental relationships and will not seek to be useful with regard to the law. Thus, a ruler who mistakes reputation for ability when assigning offices will see his state fall into disorder.”
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“Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.”
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“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.”
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“Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.”
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“I'm not afraid to make mistakes.”
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“We must not repeat the same mistakes, or commit the same cruelties that were done in the past.”
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“In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.”
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“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.”
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“I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.”
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“You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.”
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“You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.”
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“Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.”
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“I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.”
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“People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.”
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“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.”
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“I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.”
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“Hey, I live life by the moment. I have no regrets. I live it to the fullest. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life and I'm learning from them. I'm 'The Situation.'”
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“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”
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“Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.”
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“I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.”
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“Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.”
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“I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.”
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“The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.”
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“All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.”
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“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”
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“Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That's basically true with anything.”
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“The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.”
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“We had been told many times that astronauts would not make any mistakes. They were trained to be perfect.”
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“I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.”
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“I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.”
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“The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.”
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“Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.”
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“I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.”
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“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.”
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“Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.”
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“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”
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“Do I make mistakes? Yeah.”
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“Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.”
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“I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.”
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“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.”
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“I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.”
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“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.”
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“Sometimes you have to make mistakes to strive to be the person you want to be.”
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“Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.”
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“People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.”
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“If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.”
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“I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something wrong, own it. Like, hold your own.”
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“The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.”
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“You have to learn every single day, and try not to make the same mistakes. That's my mentality.”
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“I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.”
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“I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.”
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“I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.”
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“Bury your mistakes.”
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“Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.”
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“Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.”
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“But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.”
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“Perfection isn't everything, some mistakes are pretty groovy.”
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“Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.”
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“The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.”
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“Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”
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“I have made a lot of mistakes, but I am proud of them all.”
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“You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It's how you get up that defines you to a certain extent.”
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“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
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“Own up to your responsibilities and your mistakes and be a better person moving forward.”
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“We all make mistakes. God knows I've made more than anyone else I know.”
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“Certainly we have made mistakes, but you try and learn from your mistakes. And the most important thing is always to move forward and, I think, empower people to do their best, and to lead. I think people respect that and work better under those circumstances.”
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“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.”
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“Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.”
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“I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.”
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“We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.”
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“I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.”
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“People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.”
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“When people talk to you in such glowing terms, that is the time to be very, very alert because the worst of the mistakes are made in the best of the times.”
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“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”
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“Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development. But we cannot afford to do things sequentially, but parallelly and make sure that we do not repeat our mistakes.”
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“Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.”
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“Every human being makes mistakes.”
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“If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.”
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“Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.”
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“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”
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“I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.”
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“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”
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“I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.”
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“People don't like to make mistakes.”
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“The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.”
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“I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.”
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“I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.”
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“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.”
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“There is no guru like our own mistakes.”
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“I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.”
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“Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.”
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“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.”
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“I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.”
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“Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.”
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“I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?”
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“I'm going to make mistakes. I'm going to say things I may not understand have hurtful impact on people. I always call people to call me in, to educate me. And to love me enough and to see my contributions in a way that, when I become better, our country becomes better.”
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“Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.”
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“I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.”
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“But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.”
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“The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.”
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“I know I've made a lot of mistakes, but I've done some good things along the way.”
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“I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.”
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“I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.”
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“I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.”
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“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”
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“We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.”
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“Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.”
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“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”
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“It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.”
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“It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.”
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“I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.”
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“People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing.”
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“Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.”
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“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
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“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”
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“People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.”
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“I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.”
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“Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted… but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.”
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“I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.”
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“Make mistakes and make bad decisions: you learn from them.”
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“Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.”
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“I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.”
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“It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
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“People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.”
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“Everyone makes mistakes in the past. I try to learn from them. I try to learn from them as quickly as I possibly can.”
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“We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.”
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“The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.”
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“I tend to learn from mistakes that I've made. Even though it sucks to make bad choices, sometimes it's good to fail.”
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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
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“All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.”
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“I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.”
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“Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.”
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“Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.”
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“I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.”
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“It's okay to learn from your mistakes, and it's okay to be human.”
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“I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.”
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“If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.”
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“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
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“It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.”
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“A number of party… members lack proper discipline, are plagued by individualism, selfishness and opportunism. This gives rise to some individuals' words not matching their deeds, not adhering to party rules and regulations and having no proper mechanisms for disciplining those who make mistakes.”
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“Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.”
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“I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.”
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“Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.”
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“I think if you're a good person and you show that you learned from all the mistakes that you made you move on with your life. Everybody will accept that. Only an idiot will not accept that or keep reminding you of it and keep pointing that finger.”
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“You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.”
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“I've learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football.”
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“If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.”
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“Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the English experience. By contrast, Blair believes he excised the past in 1997, though what no one on the left seems to have realised is that his historic mission was to destroy the Labour party, not the Tories.”
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“People who make mistakes but try their best, other people will support. But people who make mistakes because they're lazy, nobody supports.”
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“When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.”
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“I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile… Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.”
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“There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.”
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“You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.”
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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.”
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“I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.”
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“I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.”
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“I'm learning from my past mistakes and trying to correct them as I move forward. Experience at the international level has probably taught me what it takes to probably go out there and get a 100 or to build an innings or to win a game.”
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“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
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“Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.”
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“Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.”
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“It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.”
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“This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.”
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“All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.”
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“They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.”
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“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
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“We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.”
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“The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.”
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“As an American, you have the right to protest me or another individual or a group, but I believe that protesting the United States for the mistakes it has made - when it gave you the freedom to do so in the first place - is disrespectful.”
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“I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.”
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“You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.”
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“It's just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.”
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“I don't want to repeat my mistakes.”
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“We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.”
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“Anyone who works makes mistakes and if you don't work, you never make mistakes.”
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“I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.”
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“Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.”
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“This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.”
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“It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.”
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“An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.”
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“I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.”
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“We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.”
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“There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.”
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“The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.”
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“If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.”
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“You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.”
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“Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.”
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“A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.”
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“You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.”
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“People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.”
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“I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.”
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“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
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“We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.”
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“An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.”
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“I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I think that's normal for someone who wants to grow and develop. You will have to overcome plenty of obstacles, and it is normal that you should stumble sometimes.”
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“One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.”
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“I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.”
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“Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.”
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“I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.”
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“Honestly, I am human. I make mistakes.”
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“I made mistakes and it is silly and foolish to suggest I didn't.”
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“The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I'm trying to empower people, I have to be an open book. You can see my flaws, the mistakes I've made. From that, make your own judgment and move on your own path.”
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“When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'”
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“I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.”
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“I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.”
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“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.”
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“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.”
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“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
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“It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.”
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“It's all part of our journey - scars, mistakes and difficulties we've been through.”
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“Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.”
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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.”
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“I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.”
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“I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?”
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“All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.”
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“I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.”
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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
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“There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.”
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“In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.”
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“Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.”
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“I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!”
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“Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.”
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“I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.”
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“I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.”
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“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
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“We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes - or not.”
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“It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.”
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“I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.”
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“We have to make sure we tread the right path, pursue the right policies - and not make any mistakes.”
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“When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.”
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“It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.”
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“Public health relies on public trust. Admitting mistakes and explaining prompt corrective actions engender that trust.”
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“I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.”
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“Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.”
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“When you do things wrong, even a couple of mistakes, the press has the right to criticise. Much more so when you're a goalkeeper - who remain in the spotlight forever.”
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“Being ambitious, driven, and passionate can sometimes come at a cost and warp our sense of perspective: when we constantly work and strive to be better, we can find ourselves dwelling on mistakes of the past or putting pressure on what we'll do in the future, rather than living in the present.”
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“As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.”
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“I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.”
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“I think we all learn probably more from our mistakes than we do our successes.”
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“On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.”
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“Unfortunately, we live in a world where no mistakes can be made, and it's sad because you learn from your mistakes. If we can't make mistakes, how the hell are we going to learn?”
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“He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
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“I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something.”
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“I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.”
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“If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.”
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“I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.”
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“Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.”
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“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.”
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“Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.”
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“Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.”
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“I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.”
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“One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.”
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“I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.”
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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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“I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.”
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“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.”
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“I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.”
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“There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.”
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“No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.”
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“When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.”
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“Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.”
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“Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.”
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“A judge is not a god or a king. He has the last word most of the time, but sometimes, one makes mistakes.”
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“Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.”
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“I learn the most from making my own mistakes.”
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“People make mistakes and poor decisions in life and sometimes deserve second chances.”
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“I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.”
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“Mistakes can be funny. I drove a car into a bollard and it was pretty amusing because it was while I was showing off that I was a really good driver.”
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“I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the biggest mistake when you're creating art.”
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“I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.”
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“Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.”
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“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.”
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“It's never nice to make mistakes, but it's just how you bounce back.”
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“A lot of players get to a certain point they don't want to make mistakes. They just want everyone to see how great they are. That ends up being their downfall. You put a cap on yourself.”
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“I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.”
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“The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.”
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“'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.”
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“When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.”
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“The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.”
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“I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.”
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“I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.”
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“I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.”
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“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”
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“There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.”
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“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.”
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“You can only go forward by making mistakes.”
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“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.”
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“If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.”
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“Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.”
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“Knowing my mistakes and being able to go back to fix them - that helps me out a lot.”
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“We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.”
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“I can't dwell on past mistakes.”
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“On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.”
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“I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!”
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“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.”
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“Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.”
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“I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.”
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“We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.”
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“There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.”
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“God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.”
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“At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.”
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“Formerly well-respected news organizations and experienced national journalists are making the sorts of mistakes that aren't tolerated in journalism schools. When their mistakes are corrected at all, it's with little seeming regret.”
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“I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.”
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“Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.”
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“You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.”
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“As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.”
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“Mistakes show us what we need to learn.”
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“We're never going to satisfy the White House press corps and their desires for access. And I think there have been mistakes made in the past of trying to do that.”
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“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.”
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“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
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“I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.”
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“We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.”
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“I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.”
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“I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.”
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“One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, 'I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must be achieving results because I behave this way.' This belief is sometimes true, but not across the board.”
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“I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.”
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“For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.”
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“The Politburo and Secretariat for many terms now have made some big mistakes, especially having not prevented and remedied corruption and the deterioration among some party members.”
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“By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.”
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“We all have to fight through our mistakes to become a better man.”
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“Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.”
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“Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.”
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“Part of being young is making mistakes.”
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“We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.”
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“In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.”
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“I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.”
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“I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.”
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“I've got to eliminate those mental mistakes, the false starts, bad snaps.”
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“I really appreciate working with Skip and Stephen A. and value their opinions. There's definitely been growing pains, but I know they have my best interests at heart. Sometimes I make mistakes, and they tell me, but it's tough love, and I want to hear it, and we have natural chemistry on and off the air.”
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“I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.”
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“Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.”
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“I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.”
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“We all make mistakes. There is always someone out there making a mistake.”
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“Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.”
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“Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've made mistakes. We've all made mistakes. But God loves them, God cares for them, and Jesus Christ died for their sins.”
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“You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.”
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“It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.”
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“I'm constantly anxious about making mistakes.”
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“In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do.”
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“I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.”
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“I'm not perfect. I make mistakes.”
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“You definitely learn from mistakes and adversity and I feel like those setbacks are a catapult to your true destiny.”
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“I don't know about style mistakes.”
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“You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.”
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“Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.”
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“Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
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“Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.”
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“Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.”
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“We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.”
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“I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That's very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.”
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“I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.”
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“I made so many mistakes when I was younger.”
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“Being a defender of Real Madrid means being able to make very few mistakes.”
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“I feel like, growing up, I haven't had a lot of room for error - I don't have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I'm just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.”
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“Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.”
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“How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It's crazy. I've made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.”
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“I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.”
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“I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.”
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“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
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“Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.”
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“Just because you are on TV, it doesn't mean you're not going to make mistakes.”
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“I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.”
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“I keep learning from my mistakes, and I take advice from my seniors, and the aim is to be the best in the world across all formats.”
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“Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.”
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“People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.”
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“Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.”
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“Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.”
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“I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.”
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“I will always make mistakes. I am a human being.”
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“Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”
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“One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.”
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“When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.”
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“When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.”
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“If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.”
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“Humans make mistakes.”
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“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.”
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“I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.”
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“No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.”
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“I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.”
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“There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.”
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“I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.”
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“I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.”
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“I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.”
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“Every goalkeeper has a different way of playing. Some will take risks to help the team - coming for high balls, being prepared to be attacked in the box knowing there is not much protection from the referees - but that might mean they make more mistakes. Some try to be safer to avoid those situations, but it does not help the team.”
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“Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.”
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“It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.”
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“I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.”
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“None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.”
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“I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.”
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“People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.”
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“Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.”
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“I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.”
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“I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.”
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“One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.”
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“Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes.”
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“Like everyone else, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. The only way I know how to handle them is to learn from them and move forward.”
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“I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.”
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“One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.”
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“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.”
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“He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”
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“You'll make mistakes, but if you make mistakes by trying to do the right things, then they're mistakes that most coaches and most teammates can accept.”
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“I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.”
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“I certainly made mistakes.”
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“Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.”
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“Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.”
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“I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.”
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“The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.”
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“We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.”
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“We can't be afraid to make mistakes.”
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“You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.”
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“Apologizing for your mistakes matters.”
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“Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it's simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.”
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“The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.”
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“The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.”
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“Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.”
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“We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”
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“Everyone has the right to make mistakes.”
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“All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.”
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“The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication.”
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“I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again.”
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“My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.”
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“I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.”
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“Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.”
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“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.”
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“These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'”
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“The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.”
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“We all make mistakes. I make a lot of mistakes and I will continue to make mistakes in the future.”
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“To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.”
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“We're too often told that our mistakes are ours alone, but victory is a shared benefit.”
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“In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.”
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“Turning 40, your past really comes back to you. You're very aware of where you've been the plans you've made, the memories you have, and the mistakes you've made.”
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“One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.”
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“I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.”
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“Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.”
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“Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.”
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“One of the classic mistakes is we think if we get closer to someone by just listening to all of their relationship woes, we're going to suddenly end up romantically involved.”
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“Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.”
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“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”
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“I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.”
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“Mistakes happen in racing.”
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“I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.”
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“I made lots of mistakes - the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.”
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“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”
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“The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”
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“Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.”
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“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.”
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“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
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“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
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“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
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“Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.”
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“We must expect to fail… but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.”
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“If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.”
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“All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.”
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“Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.”
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“The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.”
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“A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.”
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“People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.”
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“We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.”
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“Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.”
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“It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”
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“Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.”
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“If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.”
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“In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.”
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“I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.”
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“The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.”
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“I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.”
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“Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.”
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“You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.”
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“I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.”
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“When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.”
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“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
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“I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.”
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“There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.”
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“I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.”
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“When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.”
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“I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.”
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“I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.”
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“We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.”
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“I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.”
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“We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.”
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“I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.”
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“Our government leaders… have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.”
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“You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.”
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“But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.”
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“If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.”
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“I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.”
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“So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.”
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“Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.”
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“On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.”
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“I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.”
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“Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.”
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“The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.”
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“An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.”
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“We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.”
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“You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.”
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“Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.”
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“Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.”
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“One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.”
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“Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.”
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“Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.”
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“The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.”
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“Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.”
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“I was shaped by my mistakes.”
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“Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.”
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“I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.”
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“We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.”
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“When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!”
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“You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on… one take or two take.”
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“Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.”
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“But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.”
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“There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.”
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“I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.”
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“I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.”
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“My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.”
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“And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.”
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“Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.”
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“We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.”
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“I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.”
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“I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.”
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“Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.”
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“As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.”
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“Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.”
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“Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.”
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“Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.”
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“I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.”
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“The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.”
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“Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.”
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“We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.”
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“I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.”
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“The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.”
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“Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.”
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“We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.”
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“I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.”
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“It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.”
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“I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.”
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“I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.”
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“It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.”
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“We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.”
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“The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.”
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“There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.”
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“I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.”
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“You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.”
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“We're kind of defined by our mistakes.”
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“I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.”
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“Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.”
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“The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.”
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“We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.”
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“I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.”
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“I'm not a God, I make mistakes.”
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“A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.”
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“I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.”
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“One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.”
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“You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.”
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“It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.”
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“Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.”
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“I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.”
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“Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.”
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“I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.”
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“Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.”
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“I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.”
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“Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.”
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“I am somebody who… I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.”
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“If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.”
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“You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.”
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“We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.”
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“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”
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“OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.”
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“But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.”
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“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”
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“I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.”
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“Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!”
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“I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.”
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“What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.”
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“I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.”
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“A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.”
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“I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.”
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“I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.”
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“You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.”
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“No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.”
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“I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.”
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“If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.”
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“I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.”
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“I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.”
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“Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.”
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“In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.”
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“All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.”
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“But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.”
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“I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.”
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“Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.”
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“The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.”
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“There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.”
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“As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.”
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“I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.”
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“People love to hear the mistakes you've made.”
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“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.”
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“When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.”
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“Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.”
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“The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.”
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“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.”
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“Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.”
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“To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.”
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“Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.”
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“All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.”
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“It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.”
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“We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.”
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“I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.”
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“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”
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“Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.”
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“Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.”
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“Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.”
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“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.”
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“I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'”
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“Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.”
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“I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!”
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“I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.”
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“I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?”
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“Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?”
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“Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.”
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“And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.”
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“I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.”
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“I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.”
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“I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.”
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“I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.”
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“In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.”
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“One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes… but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.”
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“We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.”
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“Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.”
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“A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.”
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“I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.”
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“I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.”
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“While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.”
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“I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.”
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“People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.”
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“You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.”
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“I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.”
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“Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.”
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“I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.”
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“JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.”
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“When you make mistakes during routines, it's not easy getting through them.”
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“I've made some mistakes before.”
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“Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.”
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“Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.”
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“We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.”
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“I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.”
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“I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.”
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“There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.”
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“Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.”
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“Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.”
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“I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.”
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“We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.”
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“I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.”
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“I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.”
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“Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.”
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“I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.”
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“There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.”
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“I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.”
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“We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.”
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“You make mistakes and you learn from them.”
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“Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.”
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“I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.”
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“One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.”
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“This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.”
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“I have made a lot of mistakes.”
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“You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.”
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“Everybody makes mistakes.”
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“You learn from mistakes.”
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“Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.”
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“President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?”
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“As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.”
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“There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.”
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“Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.”
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“I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.”
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“The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.”
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“I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.”
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“I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.”
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“If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.”
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“It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.”
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“Life is full of horrible mistakes.”
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“Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.”
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“There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.”
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“You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.”
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“However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.”
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“I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team… that's throwing the game.”
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“I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.”
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“I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.”
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“Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.”
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“I've made mistakes in my life for sure.”
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“Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.”
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“If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.”
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“If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.”
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“I make my mistakes in public.”
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“It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes… It's life.”
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“Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.”
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“The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.”
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“My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.”
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“I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.”
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“You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.”
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“There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.”
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“Obama will learn from his mistakes.”
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“You always learn something from mistakes.”
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“You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.”
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“Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.”
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“They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.”
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“I have made mistakes.”
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“I like to make my own mistakes.”
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“I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.”
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“I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.”
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“I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.”
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“It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.”
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“I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone… it's a joke!”
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“Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.”
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“Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.”
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“I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.”
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“I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.”
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“I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.”
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“All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.”
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“Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.”
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“I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.”
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“I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.”
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“I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.”
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“I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.”
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“Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.”
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“We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.”
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“I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.”
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“I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.”
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“The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.”
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“I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.”
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“This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.”
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“I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.”
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“What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.”
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“Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.”
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“Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.”
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“I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.”
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“I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.”
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“I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.”
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“Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.”
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“You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.”
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“My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.”
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“I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.”
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“I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.”
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“A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.”
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“I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.”
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“One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.”
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“Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.”
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“Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.”
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“I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can't go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.”
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“I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.”
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“Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.”
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“When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.”
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“I am human and I make mistakes.”
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“We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.”
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“His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.”
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“I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.”
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“In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place.”
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“Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!”
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“I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.”
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“I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!”
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“From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.”
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“Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.”
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“One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.”
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“One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.”
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“Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.”
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“I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.”
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“Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.”
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“Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.”
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“It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.”
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“The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is… can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?”
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“We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.”
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“Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.”
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“I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.”
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“The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.”
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“I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success.”
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“I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.”
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“There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.”
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“No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.”
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“I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.”
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“I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.”
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“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”
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“Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.”
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“One of the most common mistakes for an entry-level job interview is to take the position: 'What is this job going to do for me?' You should be saying 'Here's what I can do and here's what I want to do to help you.'”
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“One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.”
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“But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.”
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“I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.”
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“For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.”
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“We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.”
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“We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.”
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“Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.”
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“The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt - and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.”
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“I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.”
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“I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.”
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“Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.”
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“So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.”
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“Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.”
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“As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.”
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“Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.”
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“As soon as you make mistakes, or you have an off year, even if it's not your fault as a quarterback… I've always said the quarterback and the head coach always get too much blame when you lose and too much credit when you win.”
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“The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.”
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“Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.”
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“I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.”
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“The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.”
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“When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.”
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“You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.”
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“Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.”
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“I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?”
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“You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.”
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“Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.”
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“Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need.”
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“When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.”
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“I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.”
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“I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.”
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“Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.”
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“Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. 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. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.”
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“Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.”
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“I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that.”
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“It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.”
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“There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.”
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“I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.”
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“Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.”
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“In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.”
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“Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.”
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“Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.”
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“I feel like I've been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my mom was a big part of that just because she's always let us make our own decisions, and we've known very much about the mistakes and the dangers already of whatever this Hollywood life may be.”
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“My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.”
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“The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.”
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“Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.”
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“I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.”
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“I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.”
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“The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.”
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“I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege. That's not to say people don't make mistakes - we're all human. No one's perfect. I'm just going to be myself.”
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“Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it… so let's stop judging people.”
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“I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.”
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“Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.”
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“By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.”
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“I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.”
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“Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.”
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“Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.”
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“I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.”
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“One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler's success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips.”
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“Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.”
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“I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.”
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“I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.”
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“I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.”
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“Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.”
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“I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.”
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“I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.”
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“I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have… and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.”
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“Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.”
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“I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.”
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“The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.”