“No one is perfect - that’s why pencils have erasers.” -Wolfgang Riebe: “100 Quotes to Make You Think” (28 February 2011)
Charles: How can one person makes so many mistakes in a single day?
Chuck: I get up early.
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You are doing things you have never done before, and more importantly, you are doing something. So that is my wish for you, and all of us. And my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody has ever made before. Do not freeze, do not stop, do not worry that it is not good enough, or it is not perfect, whatever it is. Art, or love, or work, or family, or life. Whatever it is you are scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes. Next year and forever and ever.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
“Mistakes are great, the more I make, the smarter I get.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“People seldom make the same mistake twice - usually it is ten or more times that they do so!” -Author Unknown
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“No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. Despite our failings, we still deserve respect. Don’t let anyone put you down.” -Author Unknown
We are human.
We are not perfect.
We are alive.
We try things.
We make mistakes.
We stumble. We fall.
We get hurt. We rise again.
We try again.
We keep learning.
We keep growing.
And we are thankful
for this priceless
opportunity called life.
-Author Unknown
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“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” -Author Unknown
“Making mistakes does not make you unworthy of love - it makes you human.” -Author Unknown
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“It is normal to make mistakes. If people cannot accept that, they do not deserve to be around you.” -Author Unknown
A Mistake
A mistake that I made said, “My Dear,
I’m dreadfully sorry I’m here,
But my feet are so big,
And my nails cut and dig,
So I’ll be here for a while, I fear.”
by Author Unknown
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“When you are not afraid to do it wrong the first time, you will eventually get it right.” -Author Unknown
“A mistake shows that someone tried to do something.” -Author Unknown
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“Even monkeys fall from trees.” [translation to English]
“Saru mo ki kara ochiru.” [original Japanese in English characters]
猿も木から落ちる [original Japanese]
-Author Unknown: Japanese proverb
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I don’t regret any of them. Sometimes that’s the only way you learn.” -Nick Nolte (Nicholas King ‘Nick’ Nolte (born 1941))
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“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” -Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
“We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes.” -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
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“I’ve learned so much from my mistakes that I am thinking about making a few more.” -Author Unknown
“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.” -Clinton D. McKinnon (Clinton Dotson McKinnon (1906 - 2001))
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“Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.” -Georges Carpentier (1894 - 1975)
“My friend Danny Breslin from Florida tells the story of two men who were sitting on a bench in London’s Hyde Park. They wanted to go shopping in Oxford Street. One of them got up and started walking in the wrong direction, but he asked the way and a passerby put him right. He finally arrived at the shops but the other man just stayed on the bench. That guy who was walking in the wrong direction was on his way. Even his mistakes were part of getting there. The guy on the bench got nowhere. So if it feels right, give it a whirl, says Danny.” -Celia Haddon (born 1945)
“Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.” -Author Unknown
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“We learn to walk by stumbling.” -Author Unknown: Bulgarian proverb
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand-in-hand.” -Emily Kimbrough (1899 - 1989)
“Even if you stumble, you’re still moving forward.” -Author Unknown
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“One thing I am very good at is making mistakes.” -Author Unknown
“The wisest of the wise may err.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.)
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“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones.” -Author Unknown
“My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.” -Beatrice Wood (1893 - 1998)
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
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“Mistakes are just steps, sometimes necessary, in the learning process.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A mistake is a lesson on its way to being learned.” -Robert Orben (born 1927)
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“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” -Hugh L. White (Hugh Lawson White (1773 - 1840)): as quoted in Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894), editor: “The New Dictionary of Thoughts” (1927)
“One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.” -Author Unknown
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“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
“It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” -Joseph Conrad (born Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “An Outcast of the Islands” (1896), Part 3, Chapter 2
“If you’re not making mistakes then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))
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“Only some of us learn by other people’s mistakes; the rest of us have to be the other people.” -Author Unknown
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison): “Any Minute” (30 June 2009)
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” -Phyllis Theroux (Phyllis Grissim-Theroux (born 1939))
“Just because you made a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.” -Georgette Mosbacher (born 1947)
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“I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow our mistakes to become our identity.” -Asa Don Brown
“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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DM: Do you feel you’ve learnt by your mistakes here?
PC: I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost perfectly. I know my mistakes inside out.
-Peter Cook (Peter Edward Cook (1937 - 1995)) and Dudley Moore (Dudley Stuart John Moore (1935 - 2002)): “Not Only . . . But Also” (1966) television show, ‘The Frog and Peach’ comedy sketch
“Making mistakes does not mean you’re a failure. It just means you’re trying and learning in life.” -Author Unknown
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“I would rather surround myself with people who make a lot of mistakes and have no problem admitting them, than to surround myself with people who think they make none.” -Author Unknown
“If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“You are making progress if each mistake you make is a new one.” -Author Unknown
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“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” -Sophia Loren (pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni (born 1934))
“Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass.” -Herman Lincoln Wayland (1830 - 1898)
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“Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.” -Bob Ross (Robert Norman ‘Bob’ Ross (1942 - 1995))
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.” -Frank Wilczek
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“Most of us do far better, learn faster, progress faster, get more done, when we aren’t surrounded by people who are constantly pointing out our mistakes and reminding us of our past mistakes.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.” -Author Unknown: Turkish proverb
“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan (born 1963)
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“The main thing we learn from our mistakes . . . is that we make a lot of them.” -Author Unknown
“We don’t make mistakes. We just have learnings.” -Anne Wilson Schaef (born 1934)
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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” -James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))
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“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.” -Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 - 1886): “Proverbs and Their Lessons” (1905)
Karen: What kind of mistakes do ghosts make?
Sharon: Boo-oo-oo-boo-oo-oos!
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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“Some people never make a mistake, nor do they ever make anything else.” -Author Unknown
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -John Powell (1882 - 1963)
Overheard: I am human and I make mistakes.
“The secret of success is not avoiding mistakes, but learning from them.” -Michael Josephson (born 1942)
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
“It would be a mistake to not try something for fear of making a mistake.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
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“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone (William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898))
Overheard: Have you ever noticed that no one notices you until you make a mistake?
“Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.” -Weston H. Agor (Weston Harris Agor (1939 - 2007))
Overheard: We all make mistakes. Don’t let that be a reason to give up.
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“You can learn from your mistakes, so be sure to make some.” -Bil Keane (William Aloysius ‘Bil’ Keane (1922 - 2011))
“By seeking and blundering, we learn.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Author Unknown
“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.” -Kaye Gibbons (born 1960)
“Mistakes show us what we need to learn.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
“Whenever you fall, pick up something.” -Oswald Avery (Oswald Theodore Avery, Junior (1877 - 1955))
“By ignorance we make mistakes, and by making mistakes we learn.” -Edmund Fuller
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“All great discoveries are made by mistake.” -Author Unknown
“Without mistakes, there would be no accidental discoveries, and without accidental discoveries, there would be far fewer better methods found, far fewer inventions made, and much less beneficial progress. The great untold secret of everything in which humans engage is that much of it would never result in useful outcomes were it not for the vast number of mistakes within it, mistakes that go by the name ‘accidental discoveries.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” -Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia ‘Nikki’ Giovanni, Junior (born 1943))
“Life is not life unless you make mistakes.” -Joan Collins (born 1933)
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“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.” -Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.” -Katharine Graham (Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 - 2001))
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“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.” -Teddy Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
“If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
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“Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.” -Chérie Carter-Scott (born 1949) at www.drcherie.com
“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.” -Abraham Maslow (Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970))
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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981))
“Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
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Well, that about wraps things up for now . . . we are eager to get back to making a whole lot more mistakes . . . because that is how we are certain to learn . . . and to succeed . . . let’s all go out there and make some mistakes . . . and continue to ‘Make Fun Of Life!’
Charles: How can one person makes so many mistakes in a single day?
Chuck: I get up early.
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You are doing things you have never done before, and more importantly, you are doing something. So that is my wish for you, and all of us. And my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody has ever made before. Do not freeze, do not stop, do not worry that it is not good enough, or it is not perfect, whatever it is. Art, or love, or work, or family, or life. Whatever it is you are scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes. Next year and forever and ever.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
“Mistakes are great, the more I make, the smarter I get.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“People seldom make the same mistake twice - usually it is ten or more times that they do so!” -Author Unknown
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“No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. Despite our failings, we still deserve respect. Don’t let anyone put you down.” -Author Unknown
We are human.
We are not perfect.
We are alive.
We try things.
We make mistakes.
We stumble. We fall.
We get hurt. We rise again.
We try again.
We keep learning.
We keep growing.
And we are thankful
for this priceless
opportunity called life.
-Author Unknown
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“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” -Author Unknown
“Making mistakes does not make you unworthy of love - it makes you human.” -Author Unknown
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“It is normal to make mistakes. If people cannot accept that, they do not deserve to be around you.” -Author Unknown
A Mistake
A mistake that I made said, “My Dear,
I’m dreadfully sorry I’m here,
But my feet are so big,
And my nails cut and dig,
So I’ll be here for a while, I fear.”
by Author Unknown
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“When you are not afraid to do it wrong the first time, you will eventually get it right.” -Author Unknown
“A mistake shows that someone tried to do something.” -Author Unknown
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“Even monkeys fall from trees.” [translation to English]
“Saru mo ki kara ochiru.” [original Japanese in English characters]
猿も木から落ちる [original Japanese]
-Author Unknown: Japanese proverb
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I don’t regret any of them. Sometimes that’s the only way you learn.” -Nick Nolte (Nicholas King ‘Nick’ Nolte (born 1941))
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“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” -Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
“We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes.” -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
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“I’ve learned so much from my mistakes that I am thinking about making a few more.” -Author Unknown
“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.” -Clinton D. McKinnon (Clinton Dotson McKinnon (1906 - 2001))
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“Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.” -Georges Carpentier (1894 - 1975)
“My friend Danny Breslin from Florida tells the story of two men who were sitting on a bench in London’s Hyde Park. They wanted to go shopping in Oxford Street. One of them got up and started walking in the wrong direction, but he asked the way and a passerby put him right. He finally arrived at the shops but the other man just stayed on the bench. That guy who was walking in the wrong direction was on his way. Even his mistakes were part of getting there. The guy on the bench got nowhere. So if it feels right, give it a whirl, says Danny.” -Celia Haddon (born 1945)
“Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.” -Author Unknown
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“We learn to walk by stumbling.” -Author Unknown: Bulgarian proverb
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand-in-hand.” -Emily Kimbrough (1899 - 1989)
“Even if you stumble, you’re still moving forward.” -Author Unknown
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“One thing I am very good at is making mistakes.” -Author Unknown
“The wisest of the wise may err.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.)
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“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones.” -Author Unknown
“My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.” -Beatrice Wood (1893 - 1998)
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
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“Mistakes are just steps, sometimes necessary, in the learning process.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A mistake is a lesson on its way to being learned.” -Robert Orben (born 1927)
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“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” -Hugh L. White (Hugh Lawson White (1773 - 1840)): as quoted in Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894), editor: “The New Dictionary of Thoughts” (1927)
“One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.” -Author Unknown
You may have noticed a large number of mistakes and errors on the Make Fun Of Life! Website. We have made them deliberately, for the benefit of the people who enjoy pointing out mistakes . . . because we want everyone to be happy!
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“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
“It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” -Joseph Conrad (born Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “An Outcast of the Islands” (1896), Part 3, Chapter 2
“If you’re not making mistakes then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))
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“Only some of us learn by other people’s mistakes; the rest of us have to be the other people.” -Author Unknown
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison): “Any Minute” (30 June 2009)
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” -Phyllis Theroux (Phyllis Grissim-Theroux (born 1939))
“Just because you made a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.” -Georgette Mosbacher (born 1947)
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“I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow our mistakes to become our identity.” -Asa Don Brown
“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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DM: Do you feel you’ve learnt by your mistakes here?
PC: I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost perfectly. I know my mistakes inside out.
-Peter Cook (Peter Edward Cook (1937 - 1995)) and Dudley Moore (Dudley Stuart John Moore (1935 - 2002)): “Not Only . . . But Also” (1966) television show, ‘The Frog and Peach’ comedy sketch
“Making mistakes does not mean you’re a failure. It just means you’re trying and learning in life.” -Author Unknown
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“I would rather surround myself with people who make a lot of mistakes and have no problem admitting them, than to surround myself with people who think they make none.” -Author Unknown
“If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“You are making progress if each mistake you make is a new one.” -Author Unknown
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“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” -Sophia Loren (pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni (born 1934))
“Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass.” -Herman Lincoln Wayland (1830 - 1898)
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“Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.” -Bob Ross (Robert Norman ‘Bob’ Ross (1942 - 1995))
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.” -Frank Wilczek
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“Most of us do far better, learn faster, progress faster, get more done, when we aren’t surrounded by people who are constantly pointing out our mistakes and reminding us of our past mistakes.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.” -Author Unknown: Turkish proverb
“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan (born 1963)
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“The main thing we learn from our mistakes . . . is that we make a lot of them.” -Author Unknown
“We don’t make mistakes. We just have learnings.” -Anne Wilson Schaef (born 1934)
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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” -James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))
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“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.” -Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 - 1886): “Proverbs and Their Lessons” (1905)
Karen: What kind of mistakes do ghosts make?
Sharon: Boo-oo-oo-boo-oo-oos!
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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“Some people never make a mistake, nor do they ever make anything else.” -Author Unknown
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -John Powell (1882 - 1963)
Overheard: I am human and I make mistakes.
“The secret of success is not avoiding mistakes, but learning from them.” -Michael Josephson (born 1942)
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
“It would be a mistake to not try something for fear of making a mistake.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
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“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone (William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898))
Overheard: Have you ever noticed that no one notices you until you make a mistake?
“Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.” -Weston H. Agor (Weston Harris Agor (1939 - 2007))
Overheard: We all make mistakes. Don’t let that be a reason to give up.
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“You can learn from your mistakes, so be sure to make some.” -Bil Keane (William Aloysius ‘Bil’ Keane (1922 - 2011))
“By seeking and blundering, we learn.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Author Unknown
“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.” -Kaye Gibbons (born 1960)
“Mistakes show us what we need to learn.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
“Whenever you fall, pick up something.” -Oswald Avery (Oswald Theodore Avery, Junior (1877 - 1955))
“By ignorance we make mistakes, and by making mistakes we learn.” -Edmund Fuller
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“All great discoveries are made by mistake.” -Author Unknown
“Without mistakes, there would be no accidental discoveries, and without accidental discoveries, there would be far fewer better methods found, far fewer inventions made, and much less beneficial progress. The great untold secret of everything in which humans engage is that much of it would never result in useful outcomes were it not for the vast number of mistakes within it, mistakes that go by the name ‘accidental discoveries.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” -Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia ‘Nikki’ Giovanni, Junior (born 1943))
“Life is not life unless you make mistakes.” -Joan Collins (born 1933)
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“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.” -Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.” -Katharine Graham (Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 - 2001))
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“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.” -Teddy Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
“If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
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“Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.” -Chérie Carter-Scott (born 1949) at www.drcherie.com
“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.” -Abraham Maslow (Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970))
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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981))
“Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
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Well, that about wraps things up for now . . . we are eager to get back to making a whole lot more mistakes . . . because that is how we are certain to learn . . . and to succeed . . . let’s all go out there and make some mistakes . . . and continue to ‘Make Fun Of Life!’
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