Quotes About Experience

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.

This volume is dedicated to time. It gives us memories, fine wine, and wrinkles. But the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old. So here's to time, dear reader, yours and mine. May you have many more wrinkles, a lot of fine wine, and memories to last two lifetimes.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

I did a few opening-act gigs at United Nations and Water the Bush. I opened up for Digital Underground when they came to L.A. and

What made New Jack City work is that I showed up with zero attitude. I was a wide-eyed rookie, a sponge, trying to soak it up and willing to learn from everybody. I didn't know shit about hitting marks or character motivation—all this acting

A lot of times I'd step out of my own zone as Scotty Appleton and tell Wesley or Chris or Judd how shit really would get said in the game. Subtle little things like gestures and looks. Things I lived firsthand, things I witnessed, I was able to add that into the performances.

I guess a lot of players got this story to tell No matter how cold you roll you simply cannot win It's always fun in the beginning But pain in the end —ICE, "PAIN

At first, I got bused to a junior high in Culver City—a mostly white school—but for tenth grade, I decided I wanted to walk to Crenshaw High. Man, talk about culture shock. Crenshaw was where I first got introduced to the

All through high school, I was reading Iceberg Slim. He was the first author I discovered who truly delved

so long since my last stint in college, but my aptitude for academics came back to me quickly.

in more than twenty years of prison, I'd never been called into the warden's office. I walked in and he smiled at me, handing me a letter. It was from a fifteen-year-old Mexican American kid named Danny who I'd tried to connect with in a one-on-one.

Nos comimos el tiempo, nos rechina su arena entre los dientes.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Learning without action is like wax without honey. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.