Pastoral Resources

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.