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I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style. -- John Prine
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. -- Benjamin Disraeli
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning. -- Rick Warren
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure. -- Peter York
It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake. -- Tori Spelling
After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again. -- Zig Ziglar
Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion. -- Donald Trump
I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? -- Karen Joy Fowler
They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. -- David Mamet
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] -- Mary Catherine Bateson
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do. -- Linus Torvalds
But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. -- Barack Obama
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. -- Tori Spelling
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made. -- Bill Cosby
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. -- Isaac Asimov
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. -- George Bernard Shaw
We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. -- Chuck Palahniuk
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them. -- Mike Tyson
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! -- Ray Bradbury
We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do. -- Allen W. Wood
Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes. -- Mike Michalowicz
If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things! -- Walter C. Wright
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! -- Alfred Adler
CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk. -- David Letterman

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