Mistakes - Quotes
Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
If you can`t let go of the past, the mistakes you`ve made will eat you alive.
Any day you wake up and your body`s still moving is a good day. You can start over. You can forget your past mistakes.
I`m not perfect! I`m human. I make mistakes. But I try to be as conscious as I can about things I should be.
They say we can repress our memories. I wonder if we`re just keeping them safe somewhere. Because no matter how painful they are, they are our most valuable possessions. Our lives are built on our mistakes as much as our successes. They made us who we are.
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can`t erase my mistakes.
Mistakes are part of the game. It`s how well you recover from them, that`s the mark of a great player.
You only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that`s the end of you.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
He`s not perfect. You aren`t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.
Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new.
The history of philosophy is in large measure the history of very smart people making very tempting mistakes, and if you don`t know the history, you are doomed to making the same darn mistakes all over again.
Sometimes you don`t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix. Making mistakes is the key to making progress.