#takes

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 all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#awful #come #dedication #determination #effort

By seeking and blundering we learn. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#experience #learning-from-mistakes #education

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

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win. ↗

— Pau Gasol

#gets #just #matter #takes #who

When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#historical #humorous #mistakes #food

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. ↗

— Dan Harmon

#community #forgive #forgiving #mistakes #forgiveness

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ↗

— John Leonard

#friend #grow #long #long time #old

I’m not going to lecture you on the error of your ways. Not until you fetch me a podium and a microphone. I’ll also need a screen, a projector, and a laser pointer. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#errors #funny #humor #laser #lecture