"Mistakes just mean you’re trying” is a motivational saying that has been printed on images. “Mistakes just mean you’re trying” was posted on Twitter on September 12, 2011.
“Making mistakes does not mean you’re a failure. It just means you’re trying and learning in life” is a longer version of the saying that was cited earlier in 2011. “Mistakes are proof that you are trying” is a related saying from 2002.
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AshleyDenise
@_kissmyASSHLEY
RT @laurenneallamb: mistakes just mean you’re trying
8:57 AM - 12 Sep 2011
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Taylor Head
@taylorhead_
Mistakes just mean that you’re trying…
12:08 AM - 3 Jan 2012
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Caitlin Burroughs
@Burr_Berry7
Mistakes just mean you’re trying #realtalk
11:57 AM - 25 Jan 2012
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Kiela
@aaronvv1
Mistakes just mean you’re trying in life
3:32 AM - 5 Mar 2012
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baedrienne
@adriemetivvier
mistakes just mean you’re trying
5:10 PM - 17 Apr 2012
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WDP
@WDPcomms
#WednesdayWisdom Mistakes just mean you’re trying!
7:01 AM - 13 Dec 2017
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StreetAway
@streetawayapp
Mistakes just mean you’re trying #WednesdayWisdom #streetawayapp
9:02 AM - 7 Mar 2018
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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