Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
There's no education in the second kick of a mule
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.
Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.
I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.
Obviously, when you drop a ball early in the game, it could be worse. You can go on to drop many more balls or stuff like that.
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
