George Clooney Quotes

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

Some advice from a beginner: never judge your full potential based on your first run.

To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

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

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.