Quotes About Learning

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

If we're not failing or making mistakes, it means we're playing it too safe.

Poet Lord Byron was right when he stated, "Adversity is the first path to truth.

Cuando las personas cometen errores, generalmente hacen una de tres cosas como respuesta a ellos: deciden no volver a cometer nunca otro error, lo cual es imposible. Permiten que su error los convierta en cobardes, lo cual es necio. O deciden aprender de su error y aplicar la lección a su vida, lo cual es beneficioso.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned? By asking this question I seek their wisdom. What are you learning now? This question allows me to benefit from their passion. How has failure shaped your life? This question gives insight into their attitude.

you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Education makes all the difference.

Failure is inevitable; learning is optional

The only person who avoids failure altogether is the person who never leaves her driveway. So the real issue is not whether you're going to fail. It's whether you're going to fail successfully (profiting from your failure).

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

Being willing to give up some of the things you love in order to focus on what has the greatest impact isn't an easy lesson to learn. But the earlier you embrace it, the sooner you can dedicate yourself to excellence in what matters most.

To limit our lives to our past experiences is to cheat ourselves from developing our potential and increasing our possibilities for success. Mark Twain said, "If a cat sits on a hot stove, it will never sit on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one either." Forget your past failures and begin to enlarge your expectations for tomorrow.

Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.

Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So

El éxito puede conseguir distorsionar nuestra visión de la realidad. Puede hacernos creer que somos mejores de lo que realmente somos. Puede seducirnos a creer que no hay mucho más que aprender. Puede convencernos de que ya no deberíamos esperar afrontar y vencer el fracaso. Estos conceptos son peligrosos para cualquiera que quiera seguir mejorando.

Experience alone isn't a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

Get a new definition of failure. Regard it as the price you pay for progress. If you can do that, you will put yourself in a much better position to fail forward.

If you really want to achieve your dreams—I mean really achieve them, not just daydream or talk about them—you've got to get out there and fail. Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. Turn your mistakes into stepping-stones for success.

Let me help you by telling you something you need to know. You won't do well the first time you do anything. You don't know what you're doing when you start. Nobody is good at the beginning of doing something new. Get over it.

Horace Walpole dijo que «las equivocaciones en la ciencia siempre anteceden a la verdad».

Contrary to popular belief, I consider failure a necessity in business. If you're not failing at least five times a day, you're probably not doing enough. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. The operative word here is learn. If you repeat the same mistake two or three times, you are not learning from it. You must learn from your own mistakes and from the mistakes of others before you.4

People who fail forward are able to see errors or negative experiences as a regular part of life, learn from them, and then move on. They persevere in order to achieve their purpose in life.

Un buen liderazgo se aprende en las trincheras.