Bob Greene Quotes

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.

Past failures unlock future successes

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

If I am through learning, I am through.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

If you have a fall -- mental, moral, or physical -- pick yourself up and start over again immediately. If you do, in the long run life won't beat you.

I love that idea of mastery.

I think the personal stories that I tell in my life, I think, sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.

We always find a way to learn and to get better.

Achievement builds character.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.

I'm going to get better and better. You never stop learning in this game.

It's so important that you are constantly moving. And when things are hard, it will just make you fight harder - that's what you need to develop as a person, I think.

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

Learn all you can learn. Never stop learning.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.