Quotes About Experience

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Strictly speaking, what one life sees no other can. Every individual, whether person, nation, or epoch, is an organ, for which there can be no substitute, constructed for the apprehension of truth.…

Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From there, imagination takes over.

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

It's just odd being a guest at the wedding. When you dreamed about it for so long, even if you we're a different person, and it was years ago. Sounds so stupid. I was stupid.

How wonderful, to have lived in so many places.' He found her enthusiasm infectious. 'It was. It is. The attitudes. The ideas. No one's . . . stuck.

One might debate whether it is preferable to be a cat or a person, but why get into it? If you are reading this now, you are not a cat and never will be. So along with the good days, you're going to experience the entire range of painful emotions that make us human.

She discovered that being 'ordinary' wasn't a terrible failure but rather a centering human experience. Perhaps our courage to embrace our ordinariness (along with our uniqueness) is one of the true keys to happiness in our relationships - including the relationship with our own self.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

The experience of birth is vast. It is a diverse tapestry woven by cultural customs, shaped in personal choices, affected by biological factors, marked by political circumstances. Yet the nature of birth itself prevails in elegant design of simple complexity.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Don't charge by the hour. Charge by the years.

When I die - die properly, I mean - I'd want to feel the whole process. I'd want my ordinary seconds to expand, suddenly, to hours, so that I could watch, one by one, as my cells figured out that things weren't working any more. As, one by one, they drew the curtains, flipped the lights, slipped quietly away into the dark.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Let me tell you, I may look old but that's just because of my age.

What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books and pens many tales are transmitted from father and mother to son and daughter.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.