Alessandro Michele Quotes

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

Ideas come from everything

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

I do have a lot to learn, and I think that has a big factor in everything. Being 19 years old and being able to be in the UFC has a big effect on every single thing that people look at.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.