"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
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"The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!"
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"I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones."
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"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
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"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
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"I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from."
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"One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one."
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"Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer."
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"Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again."
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"The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride."
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"My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character."
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"With every mistake, we must surely be learning."
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"That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin."
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"Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)"
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"History is just new people making old mistakes."
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"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone."
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"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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"One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend."
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"Never mistake motion for action."
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