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Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and E...

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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only liv...

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I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the ...

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It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

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I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the ...

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It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

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Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After s...

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...

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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false lea...

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk fai...

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistak...

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The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to enc...

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One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the des...

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He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ours...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People ...

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It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down ...

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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with.

I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, ye...

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When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. ...

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Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a tr...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues m...

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A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive ...

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Linda Sue ParkWhen My Name Was Keoko

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if ...

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I hope I remember everything," said Toni."You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after y...

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Louis SacharThe Cardturner: A Novel about a King

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

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest mig...

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy...

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How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard...

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I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times har...

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Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to...

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A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard ti...

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Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choos...

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If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call f...

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who w...

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Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our ...

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It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped F...

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I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I...

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Michael ChabonA Model World and Other Stories

With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right p...

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There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess...

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The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in...

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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely lea...

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These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I re...

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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information unti...

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If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, ...

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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar...

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~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU a...

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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. B...

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I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, an...

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People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I...

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We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unles...

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The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’...

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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...

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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wh...

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This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables ...

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I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way o...

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

...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that t...

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistake...

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