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• Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

  Amos Tversky

  Wisdom, Fall, Simple

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• Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

  Isocrates

  Faithful, Praise, Criticize

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.841, Delphi Classics

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• Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Ambition, Sloth, Suffering

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

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• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Doug Larson

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

  William Magee

  Thinking, Feelings, Doe

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• As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Dream, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Oct 30, 2012

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• Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

  Holly Near

  Storytelling, Force, Behinds

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• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  Pauline Kael

  Anxiety, Judgement, Too Much

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Humorous, Beer

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Running, Attitude

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• It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

  John Bradshaw

  Education, Teacher, Wrestling

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• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Fake People, Care

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• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

  Greer Garson

  Money, Starting Over, Starting Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Past, Literature

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• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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  If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Trust, Motivation, Errors

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.3

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• The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

  Voltaire

  Ocean, Men, Errors

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.35

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• Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Learning, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.323

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• In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Self, People, Leader

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• [In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, Two, Kind

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• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Form, Prophecy

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

  Ornette Coleman

  Perseverance, Jazz, Found

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