Quotes About Experience

The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I've been doing this for a long time, telling the truth.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

What's the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it's straightforward. It's story. VR tells stories better than any medium.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I'm not coloring it anymore. Never again.

I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you're in the right job or the wrong one.

Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you're giving up the season.

Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it's the same is lying.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Experience tells us that a good foundation is critical for success in the Arctic and elsewhere. ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 project with Rosneft is an example where we have put this experience to work.

The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.