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- Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
- H. L. Wayland
- I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
- Herbert B. Swope
- Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman
- 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 (46 AD - 120 AD)
- No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
- Ken Keyes
- Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
- Edward Dowden
- One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
- Author Unknown
- In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
- Carl Rogers
- Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes
- Abraham Harold Maslow
- From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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