Harold Evans Quotes

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

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.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Almost everything you do fails. To develop a great success we must have thousands of failures along the way

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

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

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

You make mistakes to learn from them.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

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.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

Success is a poor teacher

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.