Alexander McQueen Quotes

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

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

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

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

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.