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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

  Cat, Thinking, Play

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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

  Engineering, Essence, Able

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• I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

  Anna Benson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 15, 2003.

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• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

  Alvin Dark

  Curves, Want, Breaking Promises

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• You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude

  Tom DeLonge

  Attitude, Love You, World

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• At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

  Donald James

  Half, Other Half, Inertia

  "Vadim". Book by Donald James, December 2000.

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• In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Way, Advantage

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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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• Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.

  Kató Lomb

  Italian, Bridges, Venice

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• I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved those words and expressions for what came later, even though they are not strong enough. It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later. It's a mistake, for instance, to used the word frightful to describe a few broken up companions mixed into the ground: but it's a mistake that might be forgiven.

  Guy Sajer

  Strong, Expression, Should Have

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.68, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

  Walter Lang

  Perfect, Spirit, Holy

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• There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has to resign. He doesn’t have to resign. You take all the supports out from under him; he falls. No matter what he wants to do. This is the distinction in the analyses between nonviolent coercion in which he has to resign, but he’s forced into it, and disintegration when the regime simply falls apart. There’s nobody left with enough power to resign.

  Gene Sharp

  Fall, Thinking, Egypt

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• Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

  Roy H. Williams

  Genius, Ends, Trails

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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

  Creative Juices, Locks, Following Rules

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• You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

  James Sinegal

  Jobs, Educated, Gamble

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• He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

  William George Jordan

  Heart, Thinking, Looks

  William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”

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• One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

  Herbie Mann

  Needs, Records, Advantage

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• Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

  Umar

  Hypocrite, Views, Support

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

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Fire, People, Burned

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

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• Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mean, Talent, Our Relationship

  "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us". Book by Diane Ackerman, September 14, 2015.

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• A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Weakness, Might

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.

  Terry Eagleton

  Erosion, Play, Nebraska

  Terry Eagleton (2013). “How to Read Literature”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Men, Names

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.13, Verso

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• This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

  Clayton Christensen

  Good Man, Sometimes, Should

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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