John Connolly Quotes

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

Embarrassment is where growth happens.

My life, my failures. I hope that gives people the lesson to rebuild their own lives.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

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.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

There have been scenes and sequences I've done that I watch back now and cringe and think I dealt with that in completely the wrong way. Sometimes I'm too emotional - too invested, in that sense - but you learn, and then you don't do it again.

I consider myself as a human being with lots of ups and downs and learning from a lot of failures before I can succeed.

I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

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

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.