Mistakes
Quotes - You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you
“Once
she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her
his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's
head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“You
make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”
―
Maxwell Maltz
“A
good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with
you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist will take
non-traumatic events in your life and twist your narrative to both make them
traumatic and connect them to your current problems. The problem is that good
psychologists solve your issues while bad ones create dependency and thus
recurring revenue streams.”
―
Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for
sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate
long-term human flourishing
“It
is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”
―
Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“Nothing
is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.”
―
Ludwig van Beethoven
“If
I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no
starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match
“To
make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes
the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
―
Plutarch
“Mistakes
are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the
hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
―
Al Franken
“The
road to wisdom is paved with excess.
The
mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize
the strange.”
―
Walt Whitman
“I
sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of
making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am
potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from
heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I
intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my
mistakes I have grown.”
―
Hugh Prather
“You
have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are
right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an
education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and
maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a
painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a
certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked
away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the
one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like
you to fit in right away so that things work now.”
―
Anaïs Nin
“That
was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting
with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions
had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists,
seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we
mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were
just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.”
―
Emma Cline, The Girls
“Scars
are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be
learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we
choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not
make the same mistakes again.”
―
Marcia Lynn McClure, The Whispered Kiss
“The
50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right,
there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.”
―
Andy Rooney
“We
look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so
stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d
bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record
in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who
say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a
story to tell. Or not to tell.”
―
Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
