Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

I'm paying for a mistake I made

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe not repeat our mistakes, than why do this piece about this person or this event?

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.