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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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.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
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