Nobody lives without making mistakes.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.
Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.
It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.
I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
