Jim Mattis Quotes

Encouraging the next generation is really where my heart is.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people.

The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.

I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.

I feel it's my duty to get to the young players, tell them what's out there.

The cool thing about this business is taking the knowledge you've gained that people have passed onto you and then you pass it along to the next generation.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.