Tim Ferriss Quotes

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.

A lot of times I made the wrong choices and you learn from this, what is good, what's bad.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.