Quotes About Experience

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Humans are strongly discouraged fro comparing their lives with those of other animals. Yet everything I had experienced taught me that metaphor is the fundamental path of imagining, a first line of inquiry into the lives of other creatures that sheds light on our own.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it's sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

A lot of guys write books that are nothing but a compendium of women they've had sex with. Those guys are vapid assholes. Yet there are times when getting laid can pull your ego and confidence up from the ashes, especially when you are young and honestly feel out of your league. It's meaningless in the long run but at the time it works.

This was Special Forces' rule number one: let men experience failure so they never fail again. And by failing, they will learn how to be successful soldiers.

All people are natural story-tellers. We tell a story every time we tell someone what we did that day or share an opinion of our favorite movie. If you want to be a story-teller, good job, you already are one!

I don't argue that new remakes can't hold their own as a great gaming experience, but can they make you feel charmed like you did when you first played the original?

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Time is bunk.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others…

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Outer-body-experiences are hard to describe, since all we really know are our five senses. Suffice it to say that there was a tingling sensation and a sense of the laws of gravity loosening their grip on my body, much like being an astronaut floating above the surface of my house.

I understood, then, where his madness had come from: He, too, had experienced the loss of the good and the victory of the evil.

We look away until we have no choice. Then we examine them, remember them, and look away again, as if we're not meant to think too much about them, but to live. Just live and forget.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.