"A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all."

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Source : "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

Pete Seeger

#Mistake Quotes #Vision Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.”

Source : Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1939). “Lives of Wives”
“Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.”

Source : "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.
“Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.”
“I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of a city bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.”

Source : Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”

Source : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House

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