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

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.

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

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.

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 got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

The future for me is already a thing of the past You were my first love and you will be my last.

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.