Mike Shinoda Quotes

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

We have to learn from the past.

I believe we need to learn from our past.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.