Joshua Reynolds Quotes

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.

I don't know when I will peak and be at my best but I am learning every day and as long as I keep doing that I am happy.

Sometimes I do have to find out things the hard way.

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.

I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don't want to happen again, and that's what I try to do.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

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.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.