Quotes About Experience

Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

finding a singular travel experience doesn't require heroism so much as a simple change of mind-set. The reason so many travelers become frustrated while visiting world-famous destinations is that they are still playing by the rules of home, which "reward" you for following set routines and protocols.

After all, vagabonding involves sacrifices, and its particular sacrifices are not for everyone.

Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.

antisabbatical"—a job approached "with the sole intention of staying for a limited period of time (often one year)…to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity.

I always write from experience, whether I've had them or not.

I was young those nights, but I was getting over it.

it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.

Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was no exception.

In his later years, William traded in his Baptist upbringing for a more epicurean life.

the visit was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country," he wailed to John Jay.

but she was now better equipped to withstand his loss than she had been a few years earlier.

Having twice been sued by people for offering incorrect market advice, he refrained from offering stock tips.

He seemed to age a generation.

That bust I can never forget,' one young visitor remembered, 'for the old lady always paused before it in her tour of the rooms and, leaning on her cane, gazed and gazed, as if she could never be satisfied.

As his body aged, his mind grew younger and more buoyant.

Having missed a carefree boyhood, he seemed to want to compensate in his later years

This wasn't someone I had encountered in any biography.

I was almost overwhelmed.

No business experience was ever wasted upon Rockefeller.