#stakes

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Norton Juster

#trouble

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then? ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#reputation #crime

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#erring #mistakes #progress #responsibility #progress

God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself -Misato Katsuragi ↗

— Hideaki Anno

#mistakes #sin #regret

We're kind of defined by our mistakes. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#kind #mistakes #our

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#i #machine #make #mistakes #realize

And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#being #believe #christian #fact #gay

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#areas #both #democrats #done #get

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#almost #always #contrary #correct #mistakes

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#conceive #either #essence #i #i think