Jim Leyland Quotes

It takes time and experience to make a person.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

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

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Some age, others mature.

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Everyone changes all the time.

I'm just getting older and better.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.