Wernher von Braun Quotes

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

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

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

You learn more when things go wrong.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

We learn from out mistakes like we have done.

You make mistakes to learn from them.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

We all played bad before we played good.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.