Quotes About Experience

I'm sixty-seven years old. And, dear, in my sixty-seven years I've never let politics tell me how to treat people.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

useful knowledge was to be acquired only by doing, by living, by running headlong into the burning house of human experience and coming out singed and scorched, lungs full of smoke. Such knowledge would arise not during but after the experience, when you are sitting alone in the dark and re-creating everything you did and felt and assessing the wisdom or foolishness of each moment, the penalties and rewards.

The dreams are not torture. They often begin with an elation unlike any I have experience in life. The anguish comes on as I feel this happiness receding, and I struggle to keep it, and lost it, and grieve. Whether I weep openly each time, I don't know. But then I didn't know before how much I might show to anyone who saw me when these dreams take me.

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

To grow old is to grow remorseful.

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, the journey is the reward.

Apprentices work furiously to learn the rules; journeymen proudly perfect the rules; but masters forget the rules.

Even as a spectator, beer tastings and festivals are just about the best way to learn about—and enjoy—beer. Many of the events in

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

I'm dying and I'm having fun.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen--and it still impresses.

The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Go on those trips you've always wanted to take," the woman advised other care-givers. "Live in the moment.

La experiencia es lo que te queda cuando no consigues lo que querías.

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.