Quotes About Wisdom

I've been around the league for a while. I know the business of the league. Some stuff, like my mom said, you let it roll off your back like water on a duck's back. You keep moving on.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

As you get older and gain more experience, you're able to do multiple things. You don't necessarily have to focus so hard on your performance in order to have a good one.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

I believe the only muscles you need in basketball are the ones in your brain.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

My generation is so intelligent.

My generation knows the cost of short-sightedness in Iraq.

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'