Mika Quotes

Even if you're not ready to live at your full volume, turn it up halfway and get there.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'

I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw attention to you. But all the cool things are on the other side of 'Yes, And.'

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I'm getting, the more fearless I'm becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you're like that.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.