You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
Ray BradburyIt was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.
Jodi PicoultTags: mistakes trust self-reliance disappointment loves-ones
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
Jodi PicoultAnd a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.
Scott WesterfeldTags: humor mistakes fire ship bum-rag
Remember, if you're heading in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!
Allison Gappa BottkeTags: mistakes wrong-direction
Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.
Suzanne HarperHe looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: mistakes imposters look-alike
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: mistakes cleverness
I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.
Tags: mistakes learning-by-doing
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas HobbesTags: mistakes life-lessons
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