“I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.” NaturalMistakeRecordsWrittenEpisodesFossilsNatural ScienceJuicyNatural HistoryInformativeEmmanuel Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.” BelieveHumansFactsNaturalHuman BeingsMistakeVisionOptimism Author:Steve Blank
“The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.” ThinkingFirstsGirlNaturalMistakePeriodsGayLipsInnocenceRudeGiddyGirlhoodInsolence Book:Wit and Wisdom Source: Wit and Wisdom
“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.” IfsMenMindLittlesWould BeLife IsLyingNaturalMistakeStruggleFailingHeardThousandIdealsCowsBeauty Of LifeBacksliding Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The advice I would give would be to know that it's ok and natural to be nervous. The key is to rehearse, always be yourself and don't be afraid to not be perfect as we all make mistakes.” KnowsGivingWould BeNaturalPerfectMistakeAdviceKeysNervousBeing YourselfMaking MistakesWe All Make MistakesAlways Be Yourself Author:Tweet