Frank Iero Quotes

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.

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

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

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.

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

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

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

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

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.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

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

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

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.