#mist

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

#could #done #example #failure #failures

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #mean #mistakes #more #often

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. ↗

— Anna Held

#indulgent #mistake #most #old #old age

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. ↗

— Billy Joel

#made #mistakes #only #own #things

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#how #iii #learned #like #make

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#carried #coding #creates #future #generation

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things! ↗

— Walter C. Wright Jr.

#learning #mistakes #teamwork #leadership

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. ↗

— Les Paul

#bartender #beautiful #good #had #his

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins! ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fma #fullmetal-alchemist #humor #manga #humor