Quotes About Experience

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? - Wrath

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read.

La experiencia, eso que llamamos experiencia, no es el inventario de nuestros dolores, sino la simpatía aprendida hacia los dolores ajenos.

Uno es feliz hasta que la caga de cierta forma, luego no hay manera de recuperar eso que uno era antes

Eso duró toda la vida. No fue un año ni dos. Fue toda la vida.

Her iç çekiÅŸ insan?n yitirdiÄŸi bir yudum yaÅŸamd?r.

Que dormía, acurrucada, metiéndose dentro de él, perdida en la nada al sentir que se quebraba su carne, que se abría como un surco abierto por un clavo ardoroso, luego tibio, luego dulce dando golpes duros contra su carne blanda; sumiéndose más, hasta el gemido.

Habíamos dejado el aire caliente allá arriba y nos íbamos hundiendo en el puro calor sin aire.

Me di cuenta que su voz estaba hecha de hebras humanas, que su boca tenía dientes y una lengua que se trababa y destrababa al hablar, y que sus ojos eran como todos los ojos de la gente que vive sobre la tierra.

The road rose and fell. It rises or falls depending on whether you're coming or going. If you are leaving, it's uphill; but as you arrive it's downhill.

No one really knows anything about comedy. We know a little bit about what we're doing, but as far as the industry—the exec branch—they don't know how it happens.

Amy Schumer: I did an interview with Jerry Seinfeld the other day. Judd Apatow: You did? Did you know him at all? Amy: We met a bunch of times at the Cellar, but I didn't know him well. He picked me up in a Ferrari, and then it broke down on [the] West Side Highway. It was a real piece of shit. It was smoking, it was real scary. Judd:

We push away the bad memories, Irina said. Bleak sadness deadened her voice. We tell ourselves is better not to remember. It is not better. Better to remember everything, even pain.

It will be so difficult to have to spend five days in Costa Rica, but hey, anything for you guys. - Nellie

Gore Vidal in his memoir Palimpsest.

you must remain limited by your experience, unless you turn to fiction, in which you can, of course, embrace people, places, and events you have never personally known.

not an experience shared by most potential readers—I realized that, if I did it well, some of those readers could have that same experience of identification that I valued so much. Moments in my life might resonate with moments in theirs. They might even step right outside their familiar histories and share mine for a while.

Done there. Been that. Bought the biscuit.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

I'm familiar with the myth, I'm merely surprised that a female would be familiar with the classics. You must have a very limited experience with my sex, Alexandra said, surprised. My grandfather said most women are every bit as intelligent as men. She saw his eyes take on the sudden gleam of suppressed laughter and assumed, mistakenly, that he was amused by her assessment of female intelligence rather than her remark about his inexperience with women.