Vince Staples Quotes

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.

Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart.

Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

I think, over the course of one's lifetime, there are always certain core elements that are intriguing to you, and you take different looks as you get older, but it's something you keep coming back to. I've always been interested in the relationship between vulnerability and control. That's something that's a big thing for people, whoever they are, no matter how old you are. I think at different times, you're more aware than others.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.