Vera Wang Quotes

I have plenty of improving to do.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than what you can do.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

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

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.