#stake

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#get #ground #hill #i #off

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#also #being #boss #empowering #great

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. ↗

— William Empson

#long #makes #men #short #stakes

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#little #makes #mistakes #person #progress

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Norton Juster

#lessons #mistakes #trouble

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dice #down #i #mistake #never

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#themselves #unavoidable

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#characters #come #creating #how #i

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#always #been #composition #contra #i

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man. ↗

— LeBron James

#any #being #comes #ever #forget