David Brooks Quotes

You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

I've made my share of mistakes, but I've learned.

I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I learned from my past.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.