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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack ObamaRead
Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.
Robert KiyosakiRead
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.
Woody HayesRead
It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.
Henri MatisseRead
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Peter SengeRead
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
Robert GreeneRead
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Warren BuffettRead
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Bill GatesRead
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
Phil OchsRead
When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me_x000D_ Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be_x000D_ And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me_x000D_ My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
India.ArieRead
Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.
Tim HarfordRead
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
Amos TverskyRead
Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.
Paulo CoelhoRead
I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.
Paulo CoelhoRead
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
Sydney J. HarrisRead
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead

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