Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.

Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

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.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

You learn more when things go wrong.