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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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.
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in read more
The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle!
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
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.
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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.
