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.
Igor Stravinsky

I was shaped by my mistakes.
Janice Dickinson

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
Sheryl Crow

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
Kevyn Aucoin

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.
Scott Caan

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
Bill Murray

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.
Fred Astaire

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.
Jules Verne

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
James Hillman

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
Billy Joel

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
Monica Lewinsky

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Aldrich Ames

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
Theodor Herzl

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
Sydney Smith