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• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Information, Gaps

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• The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

  Rollo May

  Evil, Looks, Faces

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.227, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Brain, Opponents, Source

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• It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Progressive, Truth Is, Fractions

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay”, p.30, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Perfect, World

  "HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Like Stress; It Keeps Me Rockin'". "Full Metal Jackie", www.blabbermouth.net. December 30, 2012.

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• The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

  William E. Gladstone

  Order, History, May

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• We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

  Carl Sagan

  Giving, Challenges, Rewards

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• all of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.

  Jamie Foxx

  Blessed, Unique, People

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• Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

  Charles Mingus

  God, Men, Thinking

  "Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book". Book by Andrew Homzy, November 1, 1991.

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• The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.

  Mark Mason

  Pain, Mistake, Important

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  Edouard Boubat

  Morning, Pain, Flower

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• I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.

  Bill Bellamy

  Falling In Love, College, Thinking

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• I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Believe, Responsibility, Redemption

  "Jesse Jackson Jr. going to prison; says he 'manned up'" by Dan Merica, Larry Lazo and Leslie Bentz, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  George Rodger

  Cutting, Self, Trial And Error

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• To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.

  Walter Starcke

  Walter Starcke (1990). “Homesick for Heaven: You Don't Have to Wait”

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• You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Accomplishment, Meditation, Taught

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• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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• Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Philosophy, Mistake, Book

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.

  Dean Alford

  Too Much, New Testament, Testament

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• If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Sex, Gay, Opposites

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• He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

  Pope Leo I

  Endeavor

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• I that please some, try all, both joy and terror
  Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Joy, Trying

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.244, A&C Black

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• Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Church

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Feelings, Would Be, Too Much

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