Edward Young Quotes

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I’m glad I learned from it.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I learned from my past.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.