1,732 Quotes About Mistakes


  • Author Anthony J. Stieber
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    Fundamentally, a mistake shows you where you misunderstood something, so you can correct it. The faster you make mistakes, the faster you learn. It's that simple.

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  • Author Kathleen Rooney
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    How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, "Maybe it'll come with age," I want to say, 'I wouldn't count on it.

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  • Author Elizabeth Hay
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    The mistakes don't matter," he informed her one night after she stumbled over a station ID and apologized on air. "It's the recovery that counts."If she had a nickel for every one of his smiles, she'd have ten cents. She nodded sheepishly, preferring Harry's way of phrasing the same point. "I learned that a mistake is just something you go on from." Harry's advice gave her a route to follow, a path forward. Somehow Eddy managed to exchange one form of stress for another.

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