Quotes about "Life Wisdom"

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before. ”

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it. ”

Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers. ”

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me. ”

Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read. ”

Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree. ”

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself. ”

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values. ”

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience. ”

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. ”