What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, read more
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by read more
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each read more
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
