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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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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.
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.
Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and read more
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
