Quotes About Experience

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

This is a night of your life. Live it accordingly.

To appreciate a new and difficult style, as I have said, takes an act of will, a decision to experience it again.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Reading is like a journey to a new place

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

In the book of life the answers aren't always in the back

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

And of course, for all we know, I might be a hundred years old already, and she just a sleepy little girl with glasses.

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it.

The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it.