Lisi Harrison Quotes

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

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

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.

Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as puzzles that would give me gems if I could solve the puzzle. So, it made me thoughtful - what should I do differently next time? That was the puzzle. And the gem was some principle for handling the same thing when it came along again, and then I would write it down. And by writing it down and referring to it, and also being able to show it to other people so that we could agree that that was a good way of handling that thing - that was very, very powerful.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.