Rooney Mara Quotes

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 wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

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

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not. And it's what you do with that information.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.