Mike Rogers Quotes

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

You live and you learn.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

You live, you learn.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Every experience makes you a man.

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

I think you get better as you get older.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I have regrets, but you live and learn.