Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

We learn nothing by being right.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

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.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.