Quotes About Experience

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

A hard life improves the vision.

Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.