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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.