Ben Howland Quotes

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.

I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

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.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

I'm not going to sit here and tell anybody I haven't had difficulties in my life, haven't made any bad decisions. But to sit back and consider myself a bad person or not doing something positive, it's so untrue.

I can look at every one of my faults, see they're there, and go out and try to improve on it.

I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should've stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.

We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.

I've made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don't regret them at all.

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good things for us.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.

Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.

Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

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

I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

I watch all our games again at home and I know when I have made a mistake and when I haven't.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.