Roy Haynes Quotes

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

I always think I am going to do my best.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.