Jean Giraud Quotes

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

I have to accept constructive criticism.

It's one of those things that I use everything that I go through... to be better. I use it all to just fuel the fire, to grow and learn from.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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.

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

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

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.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

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 admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

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.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.