Jim Pattison Quotes

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

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

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

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.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

By nature, I'm a person who always says that whatever I've done, I could've done better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones.

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.