Failing Quote by Duncan Green Download Open image “Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.” — Duncan Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Floundering Inevitable Learning Learning by doing
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If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success. — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
Learning from success is important but learning from failure is vital to succeeding. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forget About The Word 'Failure.' If You're Always Learning New Things, You're Always Winning In Life. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You always tend to learn whenever you fail. Even when you do good, you tend to learn a lot. — Shreyas Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me." — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image