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Quotes About Experience

KeÅŸke gençken annemi dinleseydim diyorum.' 'Neden, ne derdi sana?' 'Bilmem, hiç dinlemedim ki.
~ Douglas Adams
After a while I had to admit that the forest wasn't that bad. Cold, wet and slippery, and continually trying to wrench my legs off at the knees with some bloody tangled root or other, but it also had a kind of fresh glistening quality that wouldn't go away however much I glowered at it.
~ Douglas Adams
if there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and other times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
~ Douglas Adams
the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
~ Douglas Adams
She was, after all, a mathematician and astrophysicist by training and a television presenter by experience, and what science she had forgotten over the years she was more than capable of making up by bluffing.
~ Douglas Adams
He had had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. You also panic.
~ Douglas Adams
Besides, she told herself, taking a deep breath, if life had taught her anything it was this: Never go back for your bag.
~ Douglas Adams
Herhangi bir ÅŸekilde gördüÄŸün, yaÅŸad???n veya duyduÄŸun bir ÅŸey sana özeldir. Kendi alg?lay?? ÅŸeklinle kendine bir Evren yarat?rs?n. Bu nedenle Evrende alg?lad???n her ÅŸey sana özeldir.
~ Douglas Adams
They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.
~ Douglas Adams
Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
~ Douglas Adams
If there's one thing that life's taught me," said Tricia, "it's never go back for your bag.
~ Douglas Adams
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
~ Douglas Adams
It's not so much an afterlife," said Arthur, "more a sort of après vie." The
~ Douglas Adams
I was attempting to do something I had never done before, and whenever we challenge ourselves, fear and doubt are inevitable. I am not sure we ever vanquish these voices. Whenever we are at the edge of our ability and experience, they always whisper in our ears, their worried words. I have come to see that these voices are actually trying to keep us safe as they warn us away from the unfamiliar and the unknown, but this does not make their daggers of self-doubt any less painful.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
Do you know that when a man becomes old, he begins to remember what he believed in as a child and it all comes back to him?
~ Douglas Clegg
1. YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS Youth is a cliff. You leap, and repair the broken bones later. When you're older, you draw the map, retrace your steps and find the cliff's edge again to wonder: Would anyone ever jump if they knew how far down it went? I jumped, once. I'm broken in unseen places.
~ Douglas Clegg
All human tragedies are tragedies of innocence waking.
~ Douglas Clegg
You know we got two lives, sometimes more. I don't mean like reincarnation, I mean like we have our life of innocence and then it rams right into the real life. The life where innocence is just a mirror—looks nice, reflects a lot, but it ain't the real thing. I
~ Douglas Clegg
He was too damned innocent. Homer wished he could keep Tad at this point, bonsai him to never grow up, to never have to experience bad things—
~ Douglas Clegg
Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.
~ Douglas Copeland
Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now.
~ Douglas Copeland
I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.
~ Douglas Coupland
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.
~ Douglas Coupland
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
~ Douglas Coupland