Bruce Babbitt Quotes

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

It is funny what a year can do.

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

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

Absolutely I view life from a different perspective than I did in my past. It's rewarding, to me, because it actually lets me know that I am growing up.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

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

As long as you walk away from any experience, good or bad, with lessons and things you can take into the next experience, I don't think you can do anything but look back on it with an appreciation.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

Change comes from reflection.

As you grow, you learn and talk about different things.