While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A man's mistakes are his portals of discovery.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Nowadays 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.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach.

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.

Thats what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson the next day he gives you one.

Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk food.