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You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.