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"Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes."

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation for the editor.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

Never mistake endurance for hospitality.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.

She had an unequaled gift. . . of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advice his client to plant vines.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other way.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

When a bureaucrat makes a mistake and continues to make it, it usually becomes the new policy.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
--Lewis Thomas

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
--Leon Trotsky

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
--Unknown