A Quote by Edie Brickell

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently. — © Edie Brickell
You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.
You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don't want to look back on a career and say, 'I wish I had done this a bit differently.'
Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.
When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.
You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?
When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.
I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.
With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
If 'Satyagrah' was supposed to be my last film I would look back and say it was a happy portfolio. But there is a feeling that I wish I could have done something better.
Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.
I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.
I'm the type of person that doesn't quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don't want to look back on my life when I'm, like, 80 or 90 and say, 'Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.' I basically go out and do it.
Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.
When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
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