#stakes

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ↗

— George Soros

#condition #correct #failing #human #human condition

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#corrected #dogmatism #facts #mistakes #pay

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#despised #feel #felt #i #lot

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#mistakes #more #nations #others #own

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. ↗

— Holly Near

#behind #force #forward #great #leaping

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#learning #learning process #lot #made #mistakes

Part of being young is making mistakes. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#making #making mistakes #mistakes #part #young

I was shaped by my mistakes. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#mistakes #shaped

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#budget #catch #get together #least #made