Your mistakes are your style

When you're experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. And here is the reward for perseverance: The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. - Fred Astaire

Regret, The Gibby Haynes Way

"Daddy?”

“Yes, son?”

“What does regret mean?”
“Well son, the funny thing about regret is it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend be sure and tell her,

SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!" – Gibson Jerome “Gibby” Haynes (Butthole Surfers), Sweat Loaf

Mistakes... I've made a few

In the past are the mistakes we made. In the future are the mistakes we will make. In the present are the mistakes we are making. Curse the mistakes, rail at them, regret them, learn from them. But do not wish for the perfection of time when mistakes will no longer be made, for that is what we call death. – Barry B. Longyear

Regrets... I've had a few