We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
