Ray Dalio Quotes

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned? Something didn't work out? What are the lessons learned? What are the lessons learned?

When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.

Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.

Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.