"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes"
- John Wooden
About this Quote
In this quote, John Wooden is highlighting the importance of taking action and making errors. He thinks that if a person is not making errors, then they are not actively doing anything. Making mistakes is a natural part of the learning procedure and it shows that a person is trying and taking risks. Wooden also mentions that he is confident that those who are actively doing and acting will inevitably make errors. This quote functions as a reminder that errors should not be feared or avoided, but rather welcomed as a needed step towards growth and development.
This quote is written / told by John Wooden somewhere between October 14, 1910 and today. He/she was a famous Coach from USA.
The author also have 29 other quotes.
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"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion"
"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination"
"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water"
"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision"
"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man"
