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"Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them."
"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."
"Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes."
"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."
"Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them."
"We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."
"A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that."
"The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says.. the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope."
"It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought."
"Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer."
"... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better."
"Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes."
"The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
"Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
"We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one."
"I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes are part of a creative process. But when I become disconnected, I can be incredibly mean and hard on myself."
"We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies."
"The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else."
"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."
"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
