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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. – George Sand	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things. – David M. Shoup	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 15 years ago
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. – Robert Merton Solow	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. – Thomas Szasz	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. – Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. – Jeremy Taylor	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. – Dr. Dale E. Turner	added by anonymous 15 years ago
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable. – Dr. Dale E. Turner	added by anonymous 15 years ago
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. – Unknown	added by anonymous 15 years ago
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake. – Unknown	added by anonymous 15 years ago
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer. – Denis Watley	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience – Thomas John Watson, Sr.	added by anonymous 15 years ago
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. – Hugh White	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. – Warren Wiersbe	added by anonymous 15 years ago
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. – Pearl Buck	added by anonymous 15 years ago
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. – Cicero	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. – Al Franken	added by anonymous 15 years ago
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. – Barbara Hall	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. – Sharon Salzberg	added by anonymous 15 years ago

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