Quincy Jones Quotes

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

It's really helpful when you do something you don't like. You won't make that mistake again. It's like dating a bunch of people who are wrong for you - you learn so much more about yourself that way.

I understand that ups and downs in life keep wavering, and it's important to understand them and why they happen. So I learn whatever I have to and then move forward.

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?'

We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'

I'm not a person who regrets - it doesn't make me smarter to regret something.

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

You mature, you learn things.

I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.

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.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.