Kenny Stills Quotes

You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.

You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

I admit to have made some bad decision in the initial stage of my career and paid the price. I can't afford to do such a mistake again.

I think any knock-back is a positive because it just helps you progress and move forward.

I have no problems with a young man being allowed to understand the mistakes he makes, and let's move forward. Let's move forward, and let's not do it again. That is how I look at it.

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

I could have made a lot of bad decisions, and some I did, but fortunately, I learned from those mistakes, and once they happened, I never really made those mistakes again.

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

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

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.