“10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.” HumansDoeEndsBodyLife IsLyingAnswersForgetMistakeAwarenessBirthLessonsMirrorsBeing HumanUp To You Author:Cherie Carter-Scott
“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.” PeopleIfsSoulEndsWholeGrowsProcessGrowthMistakeForgivingGuiltWoundsBlanketCrippled Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
“But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.” WayMadeEndsPlayHappensProcessMistakeComputerDown AndMusicalTake TimeDead Ends Author:Joe Mantello
“I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.” IfsGivingTryingMadeEndsWaitingTermChanceMistakeLateGive MeToo LateBehaviourMade A MistakeI Made A Mistake Author:Francois Hollande
“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.” WayEndsMistakeResponsible Book:What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are Source: What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are
“At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.” PeopleEndsHelpingMistakeThe End Of The DayLearn From Your Mistakes Author:French Montana
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.” IfsWayInspirationalDifferentEndsCertainRealizingAbilityMistakePracticeStruggleWalkingBuiltErrorsEdgesIceHillsDifferent WaysMaking MistakesParadoxCoveredSmarterSlow DownStumblingSlipping Author:Daniel Coyle
“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMayLittlesIdeasSoulEndsJoySpiritWalksMistakeWonderCreativityCreativeTearsSorrowSpringLowsWeaknessInnovationMovedRoseResponseIllnessInvisibleHandleMental IllnessRealmsAutumnSunlightCreative PeopleEccentric Author:Duncan Long
“Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.” EndsWholeHappensMistakeAccidentsChainsJust OneEpitaphOne MistakeLining Up Book:The Fuller Memorandum Source: The Fuller Memorandum
“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.” IfsWantEndsArtistDifficultCan DoMistakeSolutionsDifficultyTricksAcademicDead Ends Author:Isamu Noguchi
“It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.” ThinkingEndsGrowthRoomsMistakeIncreaseBottomScalesWages Author:Jared Bernstein
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.” PeopleKindEndsDoneUseProblemFunMistakeTelevisionStrangeInternetFavorsMaking MistakesExploitsMy MistakesI Make Mistakes Author:David Hasselhoff
“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.” IfsShouldHas BeensI CanEndsAgeTurnsMistakeAcceptingMankindStupidNervousShellsHookPastriesNervousnessStupid Mistake Author:Anton Chekhov
“There’s a tendency for young people to get discouraged and frustrated easily. But don’t be afraid to fail. In many ways, we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. Remind yourself that failure is nothing more than a means to a greater end. Bide your time, learn from your mistakes, and lead by example. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will show.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveMeanEndsShowsYoungMistakeGreaterFailingExampleTendenciesFrustratedDiscouragedIf You BelieveLearn From Your MistakesAfraid To Fail Author:Anna Maria Chavez
“"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"” PeopleThinkingMenWorldWaySaidEndsStoriesStrongWhitePowerfulMistakeHeardSeaLandDrinkGunSlaveWhite ManClansAbominationStrong Drink Author:Chinua Achebe
“I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of WABC Radio, it's Geraldo. And you know it's raw, unedited, what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, or, you know, some mistakes I'm making in real time. And I see that as a way to go out kicking and screaming. People will be hearing from me 'til the bitter end now.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayRealEndsFactsFeelingsSocialMistakeMediaNewsRadioSocial MediaHearingBitterFoxesKickingFox News Author:Geraldo Rivera
“People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.” PeopleMenWantShouldMeanMadeEndsFoundMistakeUltimateLeavingSatisfyingSoleWant UExclusionMisersUnsatisfied Author:Herbert Spencer
“The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.” BelieveKindEndsEnjoyPleasureMistakeStomachReformersGreat Mistakes Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals