Harry S Truman Quotes
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.
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I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
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Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.
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It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.
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Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life
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It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
