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.
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.
To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
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.
Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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