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"Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’"
"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
"If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity."
"It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on."
"I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage."
"If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment."
"Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it."
"It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake."
"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
"Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film."
"A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts."
"As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
"I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly."
"The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls."
"When joy disappears, look for your mistake"
"It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity"
"Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance."
"What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence."
"You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound."
