All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

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.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.

I play to the best of my abilities and am thankful for the many opportunities and amazing success He has given me. Through it all, I want to do right, not make mistakes, and live a life that is pleasing to Him.

I am grateful for the continued opportunity to take risks and learn from my mistakes as we at AMD strive to use technology to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.