Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
Interpretation
Mistakes are a natural part of being human, but failing to learn from them is a common flaw.
This quote highlights the importance of recognizing that making mistakes is an inherent part of the human experience. It suggests that while everyone makes errors, true wisdom lies in the ability to reflect on those mistakes and avoid repeating them. The essence of learning is understanding our missteps and striving to grow from them.
In practice
In a team meeting about project failures, you could say, 'Remember, making mistakes is human... repeating 'em is too.'
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.
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