Petra Nemcova Quotes

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I learned from my past.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

You learn from everything.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.