Learning from Experience Quotes

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

You can learn something from losses, wins, an unsuccessful season, a successful season.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Without intellectual honesty, you can't have a culture that's willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn't working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can't admit failure.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

It's hard to find trainers to train, coaches to coach. Just because someone was great in the business doesn't mean they can teach someone else how to be great in the business; and just because someone wasn't great in the business, doesn't mean they can't teach somebody. I used to be a firm believer in the other.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I never go by past accolades or failures.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.