Ryan Babel Quotes

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Teach yourself from others' mistakes.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Every experience makes you grow.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

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.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.