Jon Brion Quotes

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.

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.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.