Audre Lorde Quotes

I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

You can't learn if you don't try.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.