learning from past experiences Quotes

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

Past failures unlock future successes

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.