
Top 17 Quotes About Committing Mistakes
#1. Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
Nelson Mandela
#2. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracian
#3. The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice.
Auliq Ice
#4. When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all.
M.F. Moonzajer
#5. Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got the biggest, heaviest calf machine in the world. It is a miracle that this man can even support this kind of weight. He is really an inspiration to me.
Bill Pearl
#6. It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
Warren Buffett
#7. Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain.
Cirilo F. Bautista
#8. Gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals.
Ali Smith
#9. Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#10. History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#11. To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Garrison Keillor
#12. I feel vulnerable a lot interacting with human beings and being honest with people, and if I read their energy kind of not getting or shutting me down or this feeling of where we're not connecting, that's kind of a vulnerable place for me.
Matt Nathanson
#13. The mint and honeysuckle air is chilly on her damp face, awake on the nape of her neck as Witch Baby Wigg skates home.
Francesca Lia Block
#14. Have you thrown 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' at her yet?
Elle Lothlorien
#15. When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.
John Gates
#16. He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know.
Ernest Hemingway,
#17. PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.
Gerald M. Weinberg
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