Marcel Wanders Quotes

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

The years teach much which the days never know.

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

Some things get clearer as you look back on them.

I've seen everything during my career.

I'm not one to pat myself on my back, but I have had a career for 20 years, and if people are interested in how I did it or if I can give any advice, then that's lovely.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

The older you get, the more you've done.

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

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.