“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.” WayWellsI CanImportantSometimesStatesBigsBeautifulCan DoMy OwnMistakeBrainHellWillingProjectsLuckComplicatedStrikesAwfulConvinceMaking MistakesReverenceRight WayFreezeI Can Do ItSave MeInadequacySweating Author:Katherine Dunn
“Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.” IfsKnowsShouldFeelingsAsksDifficultDecisionAnswersWalksMistakeStruggleFocusProduceWillingFoolishMaking MistakesRemoveRejectedDifficult Decisions Book:What I Know For Sure Source: What I Know For Sure
“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.” WellsCountryCharacterArtistEnergyPayMistakeAcceptingStyleWillingMaterialsPersonalitySucceedPrejudiceWell BeingSpokesSensationsGreat ArtFanaticismGreat ArtistPay The Price Author:Cyril Connolly
“I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.” FirstsNextMistakeWillingFoolFirst TimeHopefullyNext Time Author:Neil Gaiman
“I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.” IfsKnowsMistakeWillingGeniusCall Me Author:Lord Byron
“It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!” IfsLifeLongMadeMatterHandsGrowthHurtMistakeWillingKissingMistakes You've Made Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING
“I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.” IfsKnowsMenMadeEnoughDreamDecisionMistakeWillingGeniusTitlesCall MeDeniedPosterity Author:Lord Byron
“I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I'm really excited about this part of my life, but I'm screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I've made, or this is something I've given up on.” ThinkingMadeGivenCan DoMistakeOne ThingHonestWillingExcitedGiven Up Author:Debora Spar
“Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenFallMistakeRichFailingWillingBecomingBlameMaking MistakesWillingnessBicyclePricelessVerbsNounsFalling OffWilling To Learn Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.” IfsKnowsWantYearsMadeTwoAgeTogetherNextEnergyDealsMistakeLordWillingPerspectiveFellowsAccomplishPlentyTwo Years Author:Ronald Reagan
“Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.” MindTurnsLossDecisionPoorMistakeLeaderCuttingChangedWillingOriginalsSuperiorsPersistYou've Changed Author:Brian Tracy
“I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.” ChildrenMadeHappensLawPayMistakeWillingPaidBrokeMy ChildrenMade A MistakeI Made A Mistake Author:Paula Poundstone
“I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.” WayHas BeensMistakeTaughtWillingValuableMy MistakesLove MyselfI Love Myself Book:Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul Source: Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul
“Look, every institution will make mistakes. I acknowledge we make mistakes, and they can hurt my reputation and our company's. But you also must be willing to let go a little bit, trust others, and not always be so stringent, provided you have robust controls.” LooksLittlesBitsHurtMistakeCompanyWillingLetting GoLittle BitInstitutionsReputationAcknowledgeMaking MistakesRobustWe Make MistakesTrust Others Author:Jamie Dimon
“I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!” ThinkingWayImportantCareMistakeWillingImportant ThingsThings To Do Author:Jane Goodall
“Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.” ThinkingWholeHandsFilmGuyMistakeWillingCastsMaking MistakesTangibleRoger Author:Alex Stapleton
“Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.” IfsFactsMistakeWillingFacts Of Life Author:Nikki Giovanni
“It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” ImportantHappensMistakeWorstWillingMemorableMaking MistakesWorst Things Author:Sara Blakely