- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regret Quotes
Some regrets linger, others never take root.
One athlete names a single lasting regret from an entire professional career — never winning a championship — while another says plainly that choosing a life in business is not something they regret. See Mistake quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
- Resignation
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
- Nov 07, 2020
I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
- Haunting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regret is something I wanted to write a lot about because once you make a decision, regret doesn't do anything except linger inside you.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020