Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

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.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

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

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.