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Quotes on Making Mistakes

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IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.
John WoodenRead
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
Neil GaimanRead
We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
Billy JoelRead
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.
Philip Seymour HoffmanRead
Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.
Robert KiyosakiRead
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Jack CanfieldRead
If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.
Wangari MaathaiRead
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry FordRead
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
J. K. RowlingRead
When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
John WoodenRead
It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
Sara BlakelyRead
My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.
Barack ObamaRead
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.
Daniel DennettRead
We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.
Jhumpa LahiriRead
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Tony RobbinsRead
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
Ludwig Von MisesRead
Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist
Paulo CoelhoRead
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
Carl SaganRead
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman RushdieRead
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
Thomas S. MonsonRead

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