Tony Buzan Quotes

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.