Minnesota Fats Quotes

Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.

When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.

You learn from a mistake by just not doing it ever again. And then you forget about it.

I just learn from other people's mistakes.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.

Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.