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.
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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