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Anon.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Norton Juster

You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

David M. Shoup

The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

Denis Watley

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dan Quayle

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on

Garry Marshall

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Al Franken

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Sydney Harris

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Coleman Hawking

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Sydney Smith

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Archie Bunker

God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God.

Bob Ross

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.

James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Wess Roberts

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

Jerry Coleman

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Josh Billings

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Derwood Fincher

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse

John Peel

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Ornette Coleman

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Billy Joel

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Unknown

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Bob Ross

We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of Painting

Dan McKinnon

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Hyman Rickover

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Henry C. Blinn

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Andrew A. Rooney

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Tallulah Bankhead

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Leon Trotsky

If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Nadine Stair

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Diane Elizabeth Duane

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Sophia Loren

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Nikki Giovanni

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Dr. David M. Burns

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Werner Karl Heisenberg

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Conrad Hilton

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Aubrey Menen

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Terry Hands

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

W. Somerset Maugham

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Steven Wright

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."

Steven Wright

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did yousleep good?" I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."

Steven Wright

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

William Arthur Ward

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions?especially selfish

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Experience: a name everyone gives to his mistakes.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

Only those who don nothing make no mistakes.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

And WHAT were those mistakes my parents made?

The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

'Some more of God's Greatest Mistakes' - Book two of Trilogy

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the o

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes." -Napoleon

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

"I am more afraid of our mistakes than our enemies' designs."-Pericles

"We made too many wrong mistakes" - Yogi Berra

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

"Make mistakes and confuse the enemy." - The Doctor

"Out here, mistakes are what make you dead." - Pal Kenzy

"A man of genius makes no mistakes." -- Joyce

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.