Quotes About Experience

You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age," Finn said. "And you never can predict which it's going to be.

A smart man learns from his

Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.

I spent a career finding interesting things to do with my life, and I've lived several lifetimes as a result.

I have a lot more patience now than I did when I was twenty-five, and patience is a big part of being a parent." "I

My mother used to tell me that life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

You know that saying, the one I've told the kids about growing old being a privilege, not a right?

the service skills of a government employee one week from retirement.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Justice Felix Frankfurter Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 1949.

It's like my dad used to say. If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

odor that reminded him of the smell of wet wood. "We

Tracy's mother had liked to say that when a person hit seventy, they aged in dog's years; the transformation was that much more pronounced.

spent a career finding interesting things to do with my life, and I've lived several lifetimes as a result. I can add this to the

Growing old is a privilege, not a right.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

no one in the biblical tradition ever is granted an experience of God without being subsequently sent. Scriptural religion is a religion of mission.

If you can learn the practical

But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.

In his roaming about the world the giant adventurer had picked up a wide smattering of knowledge, particularly including the speaking and reading of many alien tongues. Many a sheltered scholar would have been astonished at the Cimmerian's linguistic abilities, for he had experienced many adventures where knowledge of a strange language had meant the difference between life and death.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The education of a man ( or woman ) is never completed until he dies.

One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.