Gever Tulley Quotes

What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

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

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

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

My parents emphasized experiential learning - in my family, being adventurous was a sign of maturity.

I'll never forget the moment in class when I went from being afraid to fail, to expecting to fail. This informs everything I do.

I'm not afraid to make mistakes.

Every day's a learning experience.

There is always a new experience on every set, a new mistake you make. It is a learning experience.

The one message I always send to young people is, Don't be afraid to try different things to see what feels right and what's a good fit.

There's always space for me to grow and I think that experimenting and making mistakes is gonna get me to this position where I'm trying to be is always changing.

I was always so big, it took me a long time to grow into my body.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.