Tobias Lutke Quotes

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I told my whole life story in my book.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what's going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I took a lot of wrong decisions, and got talked into a lot of things. Of course, if I could go back in time, I might change some things, but wouldn't everyone? I have no regrets.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

I don't regret anything in life.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

The part of my life where my character was defined was at work because of the decisions I make and the things I do, and I guess that's what I feel qualifies me and attracts me to write the characters I do.