Quotes About Wisdom

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

As you get older - I'm not old, but 29 is relative in goalie years - you like to see your number of games taper down a little bit so you are fresher for playoffs.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

The tarot is sacred.

The thing about tarot - maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic - to me it's clarifying the things that you already know. I don't feel like any tarot reading I've done or received was particularly surprising. They always speak to things that you kind of felt already.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Reality is an acquired taste.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

I'd say to all kids, don't have a tattoo until you're 21.

It's my ex's name. Don't tattoo names on your body, kids.