John Banville Quotes

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

You need to live a little bit outside your comfort zone because you can be even more than you dream of.

Every game is a chance to improve.

Most progress is most failure.

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.