But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
~By Bill Joy ~
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.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
~By Holly Near ~
It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.
~By Linda Evans ~
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.
~By Tim Conway ~
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.
~By e. e. cummings ~
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
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.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
~By Denis Waitley ~
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
~By John Bradshaw ~
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
~By Holly Near ~
One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.
~By Robert Matsui ~
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
~By Al Gore ~
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
~By Larry Niven ~
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
~By Billy Joel ~
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
~By Joseph J. Ellis ~
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
~By Steve Jobs ~
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.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~By James Joyce ~
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
~By Herman Kahn ~
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
~By Dale Turner ~
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
~By Charles Schumer ~
I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."
~By Mako ~
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
~By Loretta Young ~
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
~By Janet Suzman ~
We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.
~By Joseph Jackson ~
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
~By Mark Udall ~
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
~By Kurt Masur ~
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
~By King Hussein ~
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
~By Robert Byrd ~
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.
~By John Clayton ~
I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
~By Boris Becker ~
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
~By Georges Carpentier ~
But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
~By John McEnroe ~
I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
~By Scott Stapp ~
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.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
~By Murray Walker ~
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
~By Terry Hands ~
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
~By Holly Near ~
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~By Sophia Loren ~
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
~By James Bryce ~
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
~By Sam Abell ~
And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.
~By Jim Otto ~
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
~By Kim Kardashian ~
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
~By Les Brown ~
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
~By John Ruskin ~
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
~By Bono ~
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
~By Carl Jung ~
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
~By Sam Levenson ~
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
~By George Muller ~
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
~By Arabella Weir ~
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.
~By Richard King ~
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
~By John Clayton ~
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
~By Jules Verne ~
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.
~By Jake Roberts ~
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
~By Rick Pitino ~
It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
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