Martin Landau Quotes

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

Democracy means being able to make wrong decisions. That’s the way we learn and mature.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

… temperament is your basic orientation toward life. The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. You can be a good leader from any of them. Lincoln was melancholy, but what a president! It’s more to do with how you grow, how you learn from your mistakes.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.