Lewis Mumford Quotes

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

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

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

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.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

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

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

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

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

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

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.