What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by read more
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, read more
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are read more
Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
