Quotes in mistakes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Making it harder to make mistakes and making mistakes that are made more visible is good. Preventing them is even better.
"Failing forward" is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.