Quotes About Experience

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. —Aristotle

If you don't think it took a man to sit here, and stay awake, during nearly an hour of opera, baby, you better think again.

Some learned and remembered, others never do." She walked down again.

Some learned and remembered, others never do.

FOR A WEEK, THEN TWO, SHE WAS

me to make a mistake. He's

It was like being rolled over by a steamroller made of flowers, Abigail thought. It didn't really hurt, it was all very pretty and sweet-smelling. But you were still flattened.

Sou assim velho porque tive o prazer de viver muito.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? HENRY JAMES

No one could truly understand the measure of joy a mother received from giving birth to a child. No one could truly understand the devastation a mother experienced upon losing one.

When you get older, you come to trust in time. Not that I'm meaning you sit idle and let it pass.

Vamos falar de sexo - começou. - Eu percebo de sexo. A mãe diz que não dói, mas às vezes as pessoas gitam e fazem barulhos porque é divertido.

It goes that youth is wasted on the young, but I'm of a mind that the young waste youth.

Why should emotions require a certain time pattern? They're as individual as the people they belong to.

We wasted time thinking when we should have been feeling.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

I'm so happy my son wanted me to jump out of a plane.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

Because we are all human and there by share a neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?

Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

In 1949 the Smokejumpers were still so young that they referred affectionately to all fires they jumped on as "ten o'clock fires," as if they already had them under control before they jumped. They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman. You know more than that, my father said. He was beautiful.

For all of us, though, it is much easier to read the waters of tragedy. (64)