Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

Every person has his or her own journey.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived. And what affects them most is our attitude-the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them. If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.