Sunday, November 28, 2010 – A Few Mistakes
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. ~ Sam Levenson
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. ~ Franklin P. Adams
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. ~ Ornette Coleman
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~ Miles Davis
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~ John Peel
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~ Niels Bohr
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. ~ Aubrey Menen
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce
In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. ~ Bill Vaughan
We made too many wrong mistakes. ~ Yogi Berra
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. ~ Jim Morrison
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, “Did you sleep good?” I said “No, I made a few mistakes.” ~ Steven Wright
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there. ~ Woody Allen
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ~ A. J. P. Taylor
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. ~ Clifton Fadiman
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~ Sigmund Freud
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ~ Lillian Hellman
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. ~ Peter Ustinov
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. ~ Salvador Dali
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. ~ Gene Roddenberry
Woman was God’s second mistake. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
We’re all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don’t make any big ones. ~ Andy Rooney
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp. ~ Joan Rivers
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ~ Tallulah Bankhead
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. ~ W. Edwards Deming
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. ~ Red Skelton
I don’t make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong. ~ Murray Walker
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up. ~ Wayne Coyne
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ~ Mason Cooley
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style. ~ Fred Astaire
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. ~ Ring Lardner
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ~ Galen Rowell
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
As for all those mistakes I make – they are on purpose – to teach you how to deal with them. ~ Donald Norman
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