Polly Berrien Berends Quotes

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

It is important for children to learn, whether they want to pursue music or any other field.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

Stumbling is not falling.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

There will be times you make decisions that actually detract from growth.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.

It's good sometimes when you fall; you learn lots of things out of it.

Embarrassment is where growth happens.

I believe failures are very important in any person's growth. I've learnt what not to do from them.

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

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.