My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly – all these make for great stories. – Chuck Palahniuk
I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we’ve learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success. – Blake Mycoskie
The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets. – Carly Fiorina
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. – Charles Caleb Colton
I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps – and fall – without receiving too much help, because it’s what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life. – Adora Svitak
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. – Billy Wilder
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in ’92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration’s mantra. I can’t imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election. – Barbara Olson
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’ – Bernie Mac
I don’t really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself. – Analeigh Tipton
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma. – Anthony Weiner
Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes – because you will anyway – and remember that small stuff stinks but that it’s also essential. – Adam Sadowsky
I really don’t know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She’s virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes. – Alexandra Ripley
Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes. – Alfie Allen
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. – Ansel Adams
Like everyone else, I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. The only way I know how to handle them is to learn from them and move forward. – Alex Rodriguez
Through the learning experiences, I’ve been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don’t want the same mistake to happen twice. – Brock Osweiler
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. – Angelina Jolie
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let’s get out of here. – Bob Kerrey
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. – Camille Pissarro
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to ‘own’ them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again. – Barry Ritholtz
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor
We’re all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don’t make any big ones. – Andy Rooney