Shawn Kemp Quotes

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

All experience is good experience.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.