Malik Yoba Quotes

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

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.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

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.

I learned from my past.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

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.

The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I think you get better as you get older.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.