Tony Hawk Quotes

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

no knowledge obtained without risk

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.