I've heard, "Experience is what keeps you from making mistakes. How do you get experience? By making mistakes!" The closest quote I can find right now is “Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” Mark Twain
--henry schaffer On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Stuart, David <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my favorites, but I don't know who to attribute it to: > > "Don't be afraid to make mistakes, because if you're not making mistakes, > you're not doing anything. However, if you're making the same mistake over > and over again, then you're not learning anything." > > Guess which the 'author' thought was the more serious 'crime'. > > > Dave > > > Dave Stuart > Principal Information Systems Support Analyst > Information Technology Services > County of Ventura, CA > 805-662-6731 > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > TICONA, LUIS > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Query for Destination z article: mistakes -- > teachable/learnable moments > > Great quotes; > I can apply some of them with my kids and our Boys Scouts by me. > > Thank you Gabe; > > Luis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Gabe Goldberg > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 3:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Query for Destination z article: mistakes -- teachable/learnable > moments > > There are at least a bazillion (Google tells me) quotes about mistakes. > > "So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you > will find success. On the far side of failure." Thomas J. Watson, Sr. > > "It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." Benjamin Disraeli > > "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." > Albert Einstein > > Anyone who's ever accomplished anything -- done anything -- has made > mistakes. What have your mainframe career mistakes, teachable/learnable > moments, painful learning experiences, hard-knocks lessons, etc., been? > What errors have you seen or heard (and believed!) others make? What were > the consequences and, most important, what did you learn? > > These might be technical or job/career related. What would you go back and > tell your younger self to do or not do? To do differently? What mistakes > would you help others avoid? > > Please be (relatively) brief; if I need more information, I'll ask. And > please copy me directly so replies aren't buried in list digests. > > Thanks... > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
