Quotes About Experience

Real readers re-read good books.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Only when you have experienced the dark side of mindfulness, will you meet loneliness.

Understanding what delight means for our customers and consistently delivering on that, all day, all night, from anywhere in the world.

We like selling experience versus selling things. We also believe there's a large body of customers who are looking for value more than just saving a dollar on a hotel room."

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn't see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language

You may have gone to college and learned how to solve all of society's problems, but when you get out in the real world, nobody ever asks you to how to solve all of society's problems. In the real world, what people ask you are questions like: "Can you make coffee?" and "Where's the rent money?"

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

We were not mad youngsters, but love is not confined to the young. Indeed, true love is a phenomenon of middle age, for only then can one be sure that what one feels is not all lust. Passion is a product of love, not its source. Why do the young never see this?

Youth departs: There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain, But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.   Stoddart, And It Never Comes Again

C'était une de ces scènes qui se gravent dans votre tête pour se transformer en souvenir. Au bout du compte, de quoi la vie est-elle faite sinon de souvenirs 

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

At the end of the day when you go home and hug your loved ones and taste that meal prepared with love, it will have a flavor the protected will never know. The sheep spend a lifetime eating grass, but you taste the flavor the protected will never know. That may be the warrior's greatest reward.

seeing the elephant.

The pieces in this book, then, are quite literally "speculative writing," neither stories nor essays but something more like fables: compressed narratives, grounded in real experience and as true as they need to be, with little "morals" at the end. They move directly from what I have seen and experienced to what I think about it, from the particular to the general, with none of the recursiveness of ordinary essays and short stories.

And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.