Adam Grant Quotes

Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

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

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

If you regret a mistake, don't just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.

Knowing my mistakes and being able to go back to fix them - that helps me out a lot.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.