Jane Fonda Quotes

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

[It is] ... a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

… there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.