"All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them."

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Source : "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

Robert Zoellick

#Mistake Quotes #Real Quotes #Moving Quotes

“High thoughts must have high language.”
“A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.”
“A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.”
“On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.”
“I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.”
“I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.”

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“I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!”

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“A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.”

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