Shelby Foote Quotes

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don't want to happen again, and that's what I try to do.

I think as you make mistakes, the No. 1 thing you've got to do is learn from them and not just make excuses for them. I've made more than anybody, probably.

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn't do in international cricket, but that's how you learn.

We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.