Nancy Gibbs Quotes

As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I would learn from that and maybe not do it again.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

I like to make my own mistakes.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

My father Tom was a workaholic who never missed a single one of my sporting events for nearly two decades, and imparted in me a sense of risk and adventure. Being the one in the middle, I had more room to drift, and after college, I left the U.S. for Chile.