I learn more from the one restaurant that didn’t work than from all the ones that were successes. ~ Wolfgang Puck, IBD, 9/24/04

Some mistakes have been stepping stones. What I regret the most are the unfinished songs, the lyrical sketches in the 80s. ~ Bono, USA Today, 11/19/04

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. ~ Lewis Thomas

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself. ~ Usher, Confessions

Every mistake that I made – and we all make mistakes—came because I didn’t take the time to get the facts. I didn’t drive hard enough. ~ Charles Knight

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ~ Mel Brooks

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. ~ Fred Hoyle

There are three times when you should never say anything important to a person: when he or she is tired or angry, and when he or she has just made a mistake. ~ David Phillips

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I’ve done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can. ~ Kiefer Sutherland, Daily Telegraph, 2006

Proofreading is more effective after publication. ~ Eric Baker

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. ~ Henry Ford

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