Joseph Fiennes: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joseph Fiennes said elsewhere, not written here

To fail better next time.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

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Sofia Coppola American filmmaker and actress

To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗

Kelly Hoppen

Living life to the full, not having regrets and not trying to plan your future too much. Just enjoy every minute.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗

Tom Allen British comedian

Never save anything for best.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 November 2023 source ↗

Ahmed Zewail Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999

It was also evident to me that if you really want to achieve and do well in American society, you have to work, and work hard…You have to work, you have to work.

Recorded Heidi Aspaturian, Caltech Oral History Project, Caltech Archives Oral History Project, 2015 source ↗