#mist

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#experienced #extremists #fertile #germans #naturally

But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology. ↗

— John Sweeney

#allow #also #apology #because #best

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mistake #own #themselves #very #will

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#folly #kingdom #london #many #mistake

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. ↗

— Herbert Marshall

#economist #fear #much #nothing #should

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

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