Quotes About Wisdom

As you get older, you know what you're good at and you know what you're not so good at. Your ego comes out of it, and then you realise you can't play every game, there'll be certain games where you won't be so affected... so you've just got to concentrate on what you are.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do.

I'm grown up enough to realise how to play cricket. I love the game.

I am at the top of the pyramid, but I am not stupid, and I realise that one small step could see me fall down very quickly.

As I grow older, I realise that just because I'm so obsessed with the truth, it doesn't mean that everyone else in my life is equally comfortable with it.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

As you get older, you realise you can't worry about mistakes; you just worry about playing, and I've been doing that.

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

My parents had something to say about everything I did. As a kid, I thought they were against me. Now I realise they were mostly right.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I have realised that life is never perfect.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Starting with a meagre amount of Rs 300 as a conductor, when I became an actor and started seeing huge moneys like Rs 3 or 4 lakhs, I thought I was 'an exclusive creation' by God, and he had made me like this. Later, I got the wisdom and realised that my time was good and things worked out! And I was also a normal human being like others.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.

When I was young, you get into the point where you want to throw everything hard. And it looks good, it feels good... You get to the point, though, where it's not realistic.

I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.