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“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.”

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Author:Donna Shalala

“My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.”

“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.”

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Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“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

“I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.”

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”

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Author:Maurice Wilkes

“Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.”

“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!”

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

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Book:Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885

Source: Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885

“The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted”

Wanted My Own Mistake

Author:Ciaran Hinds

“My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.”

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Author:George Soros

“I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.”

I Can Voice My Own Mistake Imperfection

Author:Cher

“I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.”

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Author:Cato the Elder

“I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.”

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Author:Lana Del Rey