“Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master."”

— Denzel Washington, Actor

”It is better to say I shouldn't have done that than to say I wish I would've done that.”

— Rick Congdon, VP of Americas Sales at Palo Alto Networks, I heard this during one of his Sales All Hands meetings

“Be brave enough to suck at something new.”

— Unknown, via a colleague during a presentation

”Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the UK, I read this when reading about Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx