Val McDermid Quotes

I was a terrible reporter. The only advantage was I made all my mistakes in a place and at a time where I didn't know anyone, but I literally made every mistake in the book.

It's just been this incredible steady climb, but I've seen a company that believes in me and has let me make mistakes, has let me grow and evolve and try and find new and inventive ways to use me. I feel like I came up through the farm system.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

I made tons of mistakes. Who hasn't?

It doesn't matter how much time you do in NXT; you never stop learning.

I feel like as a young player you have to play consistently because you're going to make mistakes. If you make mistakes you have to keep playing to learn from mistakes.

In a year, you can learn a lot.

When I came to the industry, I didn't know how to meet people, how to tell them that I'm good enough and how to get my first break. It was trial and error for us.

I have nothing against smaller roles; they made me what I am today. But, progression is the way of life.

The best people make mistakes.

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

The thing I love about my career is the variety and that people can't predict what I'm going to do next.