- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes Quotes
On mistakes made, owned, and left behind.
This collection focuses on mistakes as part of learning - practicing a new piece and inevitably getting parts of it wrong along the way. Related reading: Better.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it’s because you’re forced to have a certain humility if you’re not an affluent white man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I’ve stopped doing is going out of my way to make people feel OK about their mistakes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have moved away from basic racing, where you see how the drivers fight with the cars to their physical limits and then make mistakes - or not.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020