Alice Munro Quotes

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

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

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.

I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.

To make physical gains, you would go to the gym and lift weights. It's the same for the mental side. The work you put in on the mental side needs the same dedication as the physical side.

I know I'm only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I've got the right mental side of it.

An attitude's growth never stops.

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.