Stephen Baldwin Quotes

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

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.

Education is freedom.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

I like to make my own mistakes.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.