To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly – all these make for great stories.
What are you working on? Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time, I’m preparing my next mistake.”[“Woran arbeiten Sie?” wurde Herr K. gefragt. Herr K. antwortete: “Ich habe viel Mühe, ich bereite meinen nächsten Irrtum vor.”]
We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.
The first Mistake in publick Business, is the going into it.
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn’t alter the fact that I’m bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.[Надо быть богом, чтобы уметь отличать удачников от неудачников и не ошибаться…]
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
It is a Grand Mistake to think of being Great without Goodness; and I pronounce it as certain, that there was never yet a truly Great Man that was not at the same Time truly Virtuous.
