Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by…

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

— William Faulkner

Teach yourself from others' mistakes.

— Jermaine Dupri

“Without the freedom to make ‘mistakes’, people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.”

— Guy Standing

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

— Po Bronson

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

— Red Smith

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or…

— Thomas Carlyle

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

— F. R. Leavis

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done,…

— William Faulkner

Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of…

— David Hasselhoff

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done,…

— Jodi Picoult

Just because I've written extensively about race doesn't render me incapable of making the same mistakes as the people I've written about.

— Jemele Hill

Mistakes are often made when people dont apply the brakes but do allow emotions, lust, and physical attraction to be their guide.

— Kemmy Nola

“A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.”

— Paul Aurandt

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you…

— Sebastian Vettel

I have never meant a person that was perfect. We all make mistakes. Even the people that think they're perfect.

— Anonymous