William Jackson Quotes

I do reflect on it sometimes, going, 'Wow, if I knew what I knew now I would be such a better server.'

I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I wouldn't say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

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

I'm in a privileged position, but I still feel like the best is yet to come, and people still haven't seen the best of me yet, and that is so exciting for me.

When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

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.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

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.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.