Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

I've learned that I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was.

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.

If something is going on and you are struggling, embrace it. You are growing.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.