Bill McKibben Quotes

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

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.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

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

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

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

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

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

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

That is probably the best thing to do: look back on the harder games you've had, the tougher games, learn what I didn't do well and what I could have done better.

Own your problems.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

I'm a big enough lad now to know that I should just get over it and do what I have to do, by getting out on the training pitch and correcting the faults.