Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

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.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

But time growing old teaches all things.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.