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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
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If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
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I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
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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.
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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
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I've learned a lot from my mistakes.
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Don't define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work.
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The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.
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His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.
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I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.
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- Nov 07, 2020