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... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.
I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.
If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.
I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.
Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.
Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.
I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?
So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.