Sam Abell Quotes

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

Everything that comes your way is to learn - I definitely feel that.

Every day is an opportunity for me to learn - that's how I've approached life.

One of my strengths is I learn, and I like to learn from all sorts of people in all walks of life.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.