Quotes About Experience

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.