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Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

Accessing prior knowledge; transferring knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned. Use what you learn!

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill 
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni, poet
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen, author
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
Buckminster Fuller
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
George Bernard Shaw, playwright
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
Srully D. Blotnick
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
Marilyn Ferguson
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett, actress
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley, author and speaker
What we know is far less important than what we use.
Kevin Eikenberry
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan McKinnon, Folk Singer
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.
Brandi Chastain, soccer star
Failure isn't a crime. Failure to learn from failure is the crime.
Walter Wriston,, former chairman of Citicorp
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach
. Aldous Huxley
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led us to the present.
. Adlai Stevenson
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
G. K. Chesterton
You've always got to be aware of why you don't win, otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.
Layne Beachley
It is a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
Lewis Carroll
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December
James Barrie
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.
Mark Van Doren
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
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