Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a few concerns have to be dealt with at once or else something really bad could happen. Writing seems like the place to deal with those concerns.

Sometimes the worst things that you can say really teach you a lot about what you can learn.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

If I can give myself credit for anything, it's that I do try to learn from the bad. I've never felt so sure that I'm in the right place doing what I'm supposed to be doing as I am right now.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

If you can't put problems in your own backyard to rest, then how can you deal with larger issues?

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.