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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.