Jean-Pascal Tricoire Quotes

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

All experience is good experience.

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.

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

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

It was something I always wanted to do: see how other people work.

I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.

Ain't nothing wrong with college, but I just feel like everyone's paths are different.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

I'm inspired by it all - the good and the not so good - because every experience is an opportunity for me to learn, grow, and become the best version of myself.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road college. It's like a segue into adulthood, like living on your own for the first time.