Dick Button 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.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

Talent comes from experience and failure

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

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.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Each misstep leads to the next correct step.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

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

You only get better by playing.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

Fail again, fail better.

I think growth covers up mistakes.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

We screwed things up and got a lot of things right.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

If I'm looking at a client, I can say, 'Oh, wow, this is where you're weak; this is what you need to work on.' I can correct her in a matter of seconds, and then she's practicing specifically on the thing she needs to work on instead of repeating the same mistakes. Having that feedback is essential for beginners.

When you play regularly, you develop from game to game.

Every time you play more, you will improve.