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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.
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Usually, you can figure out where a person's mistakes came from if you ask them the genesis of their thought process: 'Why did you do it this way?' As opposed to telling them they did it the wrong way. Understanding their thought process will ultimately help you be able to communicate with them and navigate around them.
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I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.
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You can be as good as you want with your feet, but when you're making mistakes, the opinions will change immediately.
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I know I'm going to make mistakes, but you try to minimize them. Don't make the same ones twice.
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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.'
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I am human. I make mistakes.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will learn more from your failures than your successes - so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.
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I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.
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You make mistakes to learn from them.
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