Jan Koum Quotes

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

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.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

All of us are products of our childhood.

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

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

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

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

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.

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

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

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

Incidents of the past - a lost love, a missed opportunity - shape us and make us what we are.

The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.