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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.


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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
GROUCHO MARX Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
JOHN LUTHER Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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HYMAN RICKOVER Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Learn from other people's mistakes, life isn't long enough to make them all yourself.
UNKNOWN Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.
VANILLA ICE If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a bette...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Open up yourself to learning from other people, especially their mistakes. Of course, you can also l...
ZENG HAN JUN If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person...
BILL CLINTON What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER if you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person...
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RON JAWORSKI Respect your entity & be the best you can be. Make yourself enough to trust in yourself & make yours...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Acknowledge and express your mistakes so you can prove to yourself and others that you can learn and...
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DAVE PELZER As long as you learn from your mistakes you are guaranteed you won't repeat them.
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DAVID PACKARD As a child you make mistakes. As an adult you learn from them.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES You learn not only from your mistakes but by others mistakes
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Wise is what you learn from yourself.
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BRANDON MULL We all learn from our mistakes and others misfortune.
CATHY HAYNES We all learn from our mistakes and others' misfortune.
CATHY HAYNES The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
ADAM OSBORNE Don't take yourself too seriously, or you may forget to learn from your mistakes.
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IAN GOLD Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and tr...
NADIA COMANECI When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they becom...
P.C. CAST You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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ARETHA FRANKLIN Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
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TIMOTHY WATERHOUSE Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.
COREY TAYLOR Practice loving yourself, so you can learn how to love others.
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NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD You can't escape from yourself, can you?
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CARLI LLOYD The only thing is "we are humans" and the best thing is "humans were born to make mistakes" .. so ch...
NEHA KOTHARI It is not always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
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ERIC HOFFER Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.
LEIGH BARDUGO Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.
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SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
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