“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
"To his Mistress for her True Picture", line 49
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Maak dan die studies buiten; met de grootste eenvoudigheid, tracht u van alle zogenaamde manier te ontdoen en tracht in een woord de natuur met gevoel maar zonder denken aan het werk van anderen, na te volgen. <br class="br">Quote in Roelof's letter to his pupil Hendrik W. Mesdag, 1866; as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16, note 7 <br class="br">1860's
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Maak dan die studies buiten; met de grootste eenvoudigheid, tracht u van alle zogenaamde manier te ontdoen en tracht in een woord de natuur met gevoel maar zonder denken aan het werk van anderen, na te volgen.<br>Quote in Roelof's letter to his pupil Hendrik W. Mesdag, 1866; as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16, note 7 <br class="br">1860's
“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
'"The Treasure"
Short Stories
“Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.”
Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
"Notes about Music" (29 March 1946) http://web.archive.org/19991001055247/www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/music.html also quoted in A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen (2000) by Bryan K. Garman, p. 244 <br class="br">Context: I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes or dreams at all. Pull in my feelings, and call back all of my sentiments — and not let any earthly event move me in either direction, either cause me to hate, to fear, to love, to care, to take sides, to argue the matter at all — and, yet … there are certain good times, and pleasures that I never can forget, no matter how much I want to, because the pleasures, and the displeasures, the good times and the bad, are really all there is to me.<br>And these pleasures that you cannot ever forget are the yeast that always starts working in your mind again, and it gets in your thoughts again, and in your eyes again, and then, all at once, no matter what has happened to you, you are building a brand new world again, based and built on the mistakes, the wreck, the hard luck and trouble of the old one.
“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)