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“About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.”
“The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. Thats what the whole thing is about. And we cant stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but t...”
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.-Bono”
“One repeated the same old mistakes. Each of us has a blind spot in his thinking that defeats him time and again against all teaching and experience and pain.”
“Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" 'No, sir.' "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
“I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half ... although what's happened in the past has happened, I just want to ... be kind a...”
“Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with.”
“The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their mistake, and the more misguided their lives becamelike a long proof in mathematics in which t...”
“Do not worry about correcting your mistakes , time will bury them ; Worry about not repeating them.”
“Just don't be afraid of your mistakes because those mistakes can be the best way how to learn to do it right.”
“When you make a mistake, understand it not as a mistake but as a lesson. This however, is if and only if you have learned something from it.”
“IS LIFE A CHOICE I say no however when it is necessary I make bold choices may be mistakes no mistake goes waste, every mistake taught me to be more humble sincere and made to rethink not to make ...”
“Some mistakes are worth making twice.”
“And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”
“I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways.”
“-No- I swallowed past the fear in my throat- But I'm afraid of fucking it up.- We all fuck things up, Gav. it's how we fix them after we've broken them matters.”
“A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your wi...”
“The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.”
“I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I did not find something firm and magical to grab a hold of right that moment we would both be swa...”
“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.”