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“Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.”

Thinking Needs Humans Sometimes Realizing Human Beings Perfect Mistake Capable Reaching Making Mistakes Perfectionism

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.”

Eye Certain Imagination Mistake Objects Judgment Observation Compare Acquire Unconscious Comparison Customs Precision Arriving Correcting Involuntary

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.”

Passion Energy Mistake Youth Stronger Excited Violent Intense Strongest Durability

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.”

Mistake Spectacular

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.”

Ifs Knows Art Form Artist Mistake Doubt Strength No Doubt Recognizing Stimulus Accompany

Author:Pablo Picasso

“We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.”

Knows Wells Mistake

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.”

Should Said President Mistake Gentleman Candidates

Book:The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

“Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”

Way Life Is Mistake Persistence Making Mistakes Swim Learning From Mistakes Life Mistakes Mistakes And Learning

Author:Alfred Adler

“Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.”

People Lying Ability Mistake Impression Fisherman Blushing

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”

Mistake Taken Four Century Perspective Ghastly Redress

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Bigs Acting Mistake Expression Please Best Way Express Yourself Do Whatever You Want Big Mistake

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.”

Giving Trying Feelings Mistake Fool Raises Nobility Herds

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?”

Art Stills Mistake Doubt Progress Concern Track Making Mistakes Right Track

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!”

Done Lost Mistake Morning Stupid Painting Twenties Rage Mood Session Foul Stupid Mistake

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.”

Shows Mistake Despair Good Man Sensations Fixing

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.”

Mistake Laughing

Author:Jim Carrey

“It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.”

Would Be Mistake Serious Constitution Statesmen No Respect Serious Mistakes Tycoons

Author:Dan Quayle

“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.”

Two Opportunity Acting Mistake Worst Warrior Making Mistakes Slips Recipes Resorts Strategic My Mistakes I Make Mistakes I Have Made Mistakes Warrior Of The Light

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.”

World Today Mistake This World Perspective West Invention Internals Engines Missiles Vanishing Combustion Vanishing Point

Author:David Hockney

“I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.”

Knows Mean Religion Mistake Making Mistakes Pope Infallible

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.”

Church Behinds Mistake Miracle Refuge Marvelous Credulity Allegory Translators

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.”

May Moments Moving Humanity Belief Common Mistake Talking Movement Ready Like You Activity Singing Prepared Instance Divinity That Moment Engaging Deluded Common Humanity

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.”

Pain Past Mistake Cry Tears Shed Echoes Ache Past Mistakes Life Mistakes

Author:Guy Finley

“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”

Want Mean Mistake Impossible Simplicity Fewer Reduction

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.”

May Mistake Creative Be Creative Breakthrough Drivel

Author:John Cleese

“I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.”

May Mistake Makers

Book:Power Psycho-Cybernetics for Youth: A New Dimension in Personal Freedom

Source: Power Psycho-Cybernetics for Youth: A New Dimension in Personal Freedom

“The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.”

Mistake Growing Advantage Growing Old

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.”

Three Mistake Practice Design Foundation Constant Judgement

Book:Letters to Reyna

Source: Letters to Reyna

“I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.”

People Values Mistake Cases Celebration Ardent Rehabilitation Scorned

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.”

Way Art Different My Own Attention Mistake Study Achieve Directors Paid Cameras Shooting Different Ways Art History Studying Art

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”

Mistake Making Mistakes We All Make Mistakes We Make Mistakes

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.”

Littles Mistake Perfection Charm Premises

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.”

Two Mistake Type Ambition Sloth

Author:Tim Ferriss

“I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.”

Giving Mistake Giving Up Drinking Size Noses Stomach Drunkenness Great Mistakes

Author:Winslow Homer

“Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.”

People Thinking Wells Made Choices Parent Mistake Knowing Like You Ideals Prepared Our Love Wrong Choices

Book:Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

Source: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

Thinking Self Mistake Audience Too Much Conscious Making Mistakes Self Conscious Thinking Too Much

Book:Inception: The Shooting Script

Source: Inception: The Shooting Script

“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.”

Ifs Want Ends Artist Difficult Can Do Mistake Solutions Difficulty Tricks Academic Dead Ends

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“I believe that no matter how many mistakes weve made; how badly weve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.”

Believe Long Made Matter Opportunity I Believe Mistake Greatness Ambition Worn Steadfast Screwed Up Worn Out Dejected

Book:Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

Source: Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

“Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.”

Ideas Term Poor Attention Mistake Photography Let Me Photograph Productions Excuse Excellent Immature Excellent Work

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.”

“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.”

Thinking Ends Growth Rooms Mistake Increase Bottom Scales Wages

Author:Jared Bernstein

“I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.”

Way Made Done Realizing Mistake Upset Penalties Abstraction Death Penalty Being Done

Author:Michael Baden

“Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.”

Men Should Force Mistake Overcoming Stronger Grateful Faults

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

People Thinking Life Humans Persons Life Is Change Human Beings Mistake Psychology Our Lives Progress Right Now Constant Finished Temporary Fleeting Transient Work In Progress

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.”

Ifs Humor Mistake Failing Laughter Humorous Safety Errors Beer Immortality Aviation Assured Spectacular When All Else Fails

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.”

Want Play Guy Mistake Accidents

Author:Anquan Boldin

“To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.”

Choices Mistake

Author:Asger Jorn

“I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.”

Hands Eye My Own Mistake Silent

Author:Tom Folsom

“A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.”

Eye Difficult Mistake Drawing Familiar

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm.”

May Loss Mistake Policy Majors Storm Boat Owners Homeowners Endorsing

Author:Scott Hall

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