Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
Interpretation
Mistakes are a natural part of being human, but failing to learn from them is a common flaw.
This quote highlights the importance of recognizing that making mistakes is an inherent part of the human experience. It suggests that while everyone makes errors, true wisdom lies in the ability to reflect on those mistakes and avoid repeating them. The essence of learning is understanding our missteps and striving to grow from them.
In practice
In a team meeting about project failures, you could say, 'Remember, making mistakes is human... repeating 'em is too.'
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
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