Reflective Practice Quotes

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

I think every time you coach a certain team, when you leave that franchise, I think you continue to grow. You take a look at the things that you did, the things you wish you had done better. You analyze your strengths and your weaknesses, and then when you move to your next job, you continue to do the same thing.

Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time, but which prevent me from reflecting on the most significant, most critical fact in my life: Every day I participate in a system that is weaponizing our big, gorgeous planet against our kids.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.