Rodney Mullen Quotes

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

As we get older... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

Fail again, fail better.