#mist

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

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#mistake #unnecessary #waging #war

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. ↗

— Akio Morita

#make #mistake #same #sure #twice

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked? ↗

— Jacques Plante

#desk #fifteen #job #light #little

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#mistakes

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

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth ↗

— Carl Sagan

#chemists #moons #planets #science #scientists

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#bridge #inexperience #mistakes #usual #wisdom