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 see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.
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Siobhan Vivian
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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George Bernard Shaw
I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.
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Karen M. McManus
If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen
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Sunday Adelaja
Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
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Saminu Kanti
More Quotes By Hugh Prather
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
You say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to relate to me in a way that you don't want...
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other...
It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.
