Quotes About Wisdom

I am still learning.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Sting is a father figure to us all.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

I still feel that the original 'Karate Kid' is the great piece of work that has stood the test of time. It's a bit of soulful magic.

I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.

You can't stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.

I think you never stop learning.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

I think I will never stop having mentors.

The biggest learning is that an athlete needs to know when to stop. To know that if I push beyond this, there could be a problem.

When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.