Making Mistakes Quotes - Page 36

• Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

  James Alan Gardner

  Hurt, Mistake, People

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Trapped”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mistake, Teenager, Being Free

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• Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Love You, Like Love

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• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  Lester Bowie

  Mistake, Cat, Thinking

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• Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.

  Henry Petroski

  Mistake, Engineering, Essence

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• None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

  Dan Harmon

  Forgiveness, Running, Hurt

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• It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

  Roger von Oech

  Mistake, Creative Juices, Locks

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• There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Mistake, Fire, People

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, Mean, People

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• The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

  Caroline Knapp

  Fear, Mistake, Mean

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• What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

  Alice Bag

  Beautiful, Mistake, Would Be

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• I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

  Tony Benn

  Mistake, Made

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• So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

  Steve Irwin

  Mistake, Helping, Help Me

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• Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

  Charles Sheehan-Miles

  Mistake, Thinking, Parent

  Charles Sheehan-Miles (2012). “A Song for Julia”, p.158, Cincinnatus Press

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• You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mistake, Motherhood, Parent

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• Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Real, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

  Paul Arden

  Mistake, Unlikely

  "How Good Do You Want to Be?" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Team, Winning

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• Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Mistake, Psychology

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• Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

  Georges Carpentier

  Life, Mistake, Interesting

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• In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Mistake, Dancing

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

  Joseph Epstein

  Mistake, Genius, Sometimes

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• I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

  Maya Angelou

  Mistake, Years, Forgiving

  "The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children". Book by Phil Parham and Amy Parham, September 1, 2011.

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• Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Motivation, Mistake, Inspiration

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• Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.

  Bruce Kovner

  Mistake, Next, Taught

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