Italo Calvino Quotes

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.

I don't think I've changed since I was a little kid.

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.