Andre Benjamin Quotes

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

I had to go through so much trial and error to get all the whack-ness out of my system as a kid. I think everybody has to do that. You have to go through a period of failing in order to get better at it - whatever you're doing.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

When you don't have someone to model yourself after, you're going to make mistakes.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.