Quotes with mistakes

  • Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
  • Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
  • Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
  • People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
  • Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
  • A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
  • Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
  • I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
  • People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
  • There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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  • George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Winston Churchill All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Gene Fowler I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Igor Stravinsky 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.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Big Bank Hank 'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
    Big Bank Hank
     
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Barry Levinson A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • 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.
    John C. Maxwell
    American author, speaker, and pastor (1947 - )
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  • James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Jamie Oliver All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
    Jamie Oliver
    British celebrity chef and restaurateur (1975 - )
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  • Red Skelton All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
    Red Skelton
    American actor and comedian (1913 - 1997)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Donald Trump Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Edward. E. Cummings America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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