Pastoral Resources

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.