It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

All children have creative power.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Consistency is the horror of the world.

The spirit I think is a stream a fountain and must be continually poured out for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

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

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

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

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

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

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

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.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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.

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.

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

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

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.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.