Brandon Mull Quotes
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
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If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
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When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins
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I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
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There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.
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Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
