Quotes About Youth

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.

I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

I get so much energy to work harder when I meet and greet younger kids because they like me with such innocent hearts.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.