"Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before."

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Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

Arthur Guiterman

#Failure Quotes #Errors Quotes #Admitting Quotes

“There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.”
“When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is”
“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

Source : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
“As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.”
“When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.”
“The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.”
“At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.”
“I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.”

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