Wayne Dyer Quotes

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer.

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can't stand it.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Critics build nothing.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.

It's always better to be doing.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

Finger pointing never got anything done!

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.