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Mistakes
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“The man who never makes a mistake never makes anything.”
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“Children are so afraid of us because they know we may try to keep them from making their biggest and most important mistakes.”
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“About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.”
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“Poor Eleanor! Always doing the wrong thing, with greatness.”
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“There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.”
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“She had a genius for forgetting her own mistakes as well as other people's, which is in its way a form of generosity.”
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“I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them. ”
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“From my mistakes, I learned to like myself.”
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“But no one would possibly listen to her. No one ever listened to one unless one said the wrong thing.”
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“By our moral code, my dear, an appearance of error is punished more severely than error itself.”
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“We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them.”
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“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
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“The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.”
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“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom ...”
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.”
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“... it is so much easier to commit new errors than to right old ones!”
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“... there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!”
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“O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.”
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“By our errors we see deeper into life.”
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“Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.”
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“... men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.”
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“Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.”
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“Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.”
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“In life we make the best mistakes we know how to make. Then, with luck, we go out and make new ones.”
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“... our 'mistakes' become crucial parts, sometimes the best parts, of the lives we have made.”
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“There is no person, no group of people, no nation, that does not make grave mistakes. The test is: can they rectify their mistake?”
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“[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.”
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“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
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“Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.”
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“Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.”
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“... it is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to stick to it.”
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“Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one — a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?”
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“Of all the things we are wrong about, this idea of error might well top the list. It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition.”
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“We are never so certain of our knowledge as when we're dead wrong.”
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“You can make a lot of mistakes and still come out on top if your opponent makes worse mistakes.”
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“The only mistake is to not learn from a mistake.”
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“Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?”
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“... if you haven't made any mistakes lately, you must be doing something wrong.”
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“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster which they call Destiny.”
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“Treat mistakes as the start of a learning curve, not the end of the world.”
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“... a miss is as good as a mile ...”
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“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.”
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“If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.”
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“Mistakes are a fact of life / It is the response to error that counts ...”
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“It doesn't matter how many times you fall down. What matters is how many times you get up.”
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“Mistakes are doorways to discovery.”
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“Close only counts in horseshoes.”
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“Not that there's anything inherently horrible about making a mistake, but when you're a Negro in America it's usually not just you who's making the mistake. It's y'all, the race, black folks in toto.”
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“And if you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling in anything if you can help it.”
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“The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.”
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“Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.”
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“Make only those mistakes that you really enjoy.”
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“The one great right we all have is the right to be wrong.”
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“Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.”