Quotes About Experience

If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you'll learn twice as much in life.'' That's why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.

But one of the true marks of a veteran is not how he catches a wave, but whether he knows when and how to get off the wave.

passenger ridin' with 'em.

At nine, all fathers are perfect. At twenty-nine, they're not so perfect.

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

In my view, life is divided into three parts. Youth is longing. Maturity is being. Old age is remembering.

The truths of the sea, like the truths of the soul, cannot be reduced to numbers.

Poetry presents the thing in order to convey the feeling. It should be precise about the thing and reticent about the feeling, for as soon as the mind responds and connects with the thing the feeling shows in the words; this is how poetry enters deeply into us.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.

I got around a lot" [bahu aham caranti] has the same double meaning in Sanskrit as it has in English—to move from one place to another and from one sexual partner to another—as well as a third, purely Indian meaning that is also relevant here: to wander as a mendicant.)

My childhood was kind of a blur, to tell you the truth. I needed better glasses.

Younger guys have been approaching me lately. And asking me to buy them alcohol.

Call me jaded, but I didn't see then and I don't see now how hugging, and counting and focusing on a flickering candle or, God help me, a favorite stuffed animal, can possibly make you forget the nine pounds of wriggling human forcing its way out of you the same way it got into you nine months-and nine pounds-ago. As the scientific theory goes, what goes in must come out. Eventually. Somehow. And the coming-out part is never as much fun as the going in part.