Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
Winfrey, Oprah. Commencement Address. Harvard University, 30 May 2013, Cambridge, MA.
Politicians, bureaucrats, and appointees all will make mistakes unless they do nothing. Learning from those mistakes is an opportunity to avoid the same or similar errors in the future as well as to become wiser in general. However, many politicians are reluctant to admit that they made an error. In a polarized political atmosphere, political opponents will castigate politicians who admit to a , administrative, policy or judgment error. None the less, the greatest of the politicians learned from past errors and bcame great, in part as a result of their learning from mistakes.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media,” she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
