Barbara Tuchman Quotes

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

We teach what we need to learn.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I learned from my past.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

The doer alone learneth.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

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.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.