Adam Carolla Quotes

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

I'd rather be dead than work in a warehouse.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.

I have regrets, but you live and learn.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

To me, I look at situations and try to look back and see if there was anything I could have done.

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

I think the main thing was me having a daughter. I just knew that I had to be a man, so I grew up real quick. Then I started caring about my music more, and I feel like that was the main change between 'Killer Instinct' and 'TRAPSOUL'. I was just like, 'I need to take this more serious and watch the things I say'.

Bollywood has taught me a lot of lessons. Sometimes it has been very hard, but every struggle and obstacle that I overcame made me stronger and made me more aware.

'Alive' stems from emotional growth and contentment. Before writing the song, I was swimming in a pool of hurt, guilt and spiritual discomfort. Instead of drowning, I decided to embrace these feelings and express gratitude for the lessons learned. With this new-found sense of life, I am stronger and happier than ever.

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

If you continually watch yourself do something well, it has a positive effect. If you sat down and watched yourself bowling, batting or fielding badly, it will probably have the equal effect.

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.