Carl Van Vechten Quotes

Make mistakes; it's what you do about them that counts.

The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.