Quotes About Wisdom

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.

There are people who have been in this game much longer than myself. And one of the things that I've learned by way of just watching is to stay flexible because you never know what may pop up.

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

I have only worked with Saroj Ji once in my life and in the one time that I worked with her, I learned so many things.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

The only time information is really an edge is if you either have more or you're using it better.

It's very important to me to give something back - to pass on my know-how, to give all the lessons I learned onto the next generation so they don't make the same mistakes.

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.