N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Quotes

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.

I think as you make mistakes, the No. 1 thing you've got to do is learn from them and not just make excuses for them. I've made more than anybody, probably.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

I'm not a regret guy.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

Making a bad decision, that's just one decision, but if you do it over and over again there's no growth. If you can move forward, there's an opportunity for you to grow and change.

Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

I could have made a lot of bad decisions, and some I did, but fortunately, I learned from those mistakes, and once they happened, I never really made those mistakes again.

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

I don't have any regrets.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.