Acceptance speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific (1995)
“The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.”
Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (p. 102)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Context: And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? -- now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "The 7 Percent Solution", p. 255
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
Speeches, Volume 4 - Page 250; of António de Oliveira Salazar - Published by Coimbra Editora, 1935 - 391 pages
Source: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Context: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!
“I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that— and that was your mistake.”
Source: The Kill
“How much of what you know about business is shaped by mistaken reactions to past mistakes?”
Source: ZERO to ONE
