Never Too Late Quotes

“I have no problem with boredom, or not knowing what to do next. My only problem-which I may never solve--is finding enough time to do all the things I would like to do.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

“We are all afraid of many things; we probably can't help that. What we can try to do is not give in to our fears, but face them down instead. There is excitement in that.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

“It is not easy to find out what we like or want, when all our lives other people have been hard at work not just to make us do what they want, but to make us think that we want to do it.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

“We all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn; that our lives and our possibilities are not determined and fixed by what happened to us when we were little, or by what experts say we can or cannot do.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

“Old dogs can learn new tricks. Not only that, but can perhaps learn them even better than young dogs-once they get over the notion that they can't learn them.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

“Feeling great fear is like feeling great pain; it is like being inside a little box of one-way glass; others can see and hear you, but for you the world almost disappears.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

“It is easier to say, "I'm a nonspeller (or a non- singer)" than to face the risks and possible disappointments of learning to sing or spell.”
― John Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story