Michael Chang Quotes

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

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.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

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.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

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

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I've gotten older, I've gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.

I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.