#take

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#collection #experience #happen #later #mistakes

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#areas #around #come #country #down

Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #mistakes #experience

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#energy #i #merely #pout #some

The power to change is in my hands. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#change #new-life #take-charge #change

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense. ↗

— John Barton

#censor #curiosity #diverse #does #empathy

Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots. ↗

— Patrick Reinken

#life-and-living #mistakes #stupidity #business

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#change

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#copland #create #did #feel #had

It doesn't take much to make me happy. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#make #me #much #take