Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.

The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.