Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

I don't regret a single decision of mine. Even if I made mistakes, they helped me evolve.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

All experience is good experience.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.