“Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present.”

“We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.”

Akio Morita (1921–1999) Japanese businessman

“Girl, you can tell everybody
Yeah, you can tell everybody
Go ahead and tell everybody
Reveal the man, I'm the man, I'm the man
Yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am
Reveal the man, I'm the man, I'm the man”

Aloe Blacc (1979) American soul singer, rapper and musician

“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

“I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

“I realised that Nuto was quite right when he said that to live in a hovel or in a palace was one and the same thing, that blood is the same colour everywhere, and that everybody wants to be rich and in love and make their fortune.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist