Alexandra Bracken Quotes

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

Failure should be our teacher...

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.