#mist

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

Mmm. O positive, my favorite.” “Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon.” “So it is,” said Adrian, straight-faced. “My mistake. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#mistakes

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us. ↗

— John Flanagan

#mistakes #wisdom #mistakes

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. ↗

— George Harrison

#irony #mistakes

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. ↗

— David Levithan

#mistakes

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#mistake #mistakes

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. ↗

— John Irving

#perspective #revelation #self-discovery #mistakes

Regret for not learning; not for the mistakes you did. ↗

— Garbyal

#learning #life #mistake #experience

I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation ↗

— Alan Bradley

#creation #experience

If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example? ↗

— Terry Blakeman

#experience