Quotes About Experience

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

You can go home again ... so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.

I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

I have been too fond of stories.

Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living.

Estou procurando um lugar que precise de muitas reformas e consertos, mas que tenha fundações sólidas. Estou disposto a demolir paredes, construir pontes e acender fogueiras. Tenho uma grande experiência, um monte de energia, um pouco dessa coisa de 'visão' e não tenho medo de começar do zero. - Steve Jobs

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

The Africans wouldn't consider it a real visit unless they ate.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Living is a hazardous profession.

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key -- it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

London -- a place you go to get bronchitis.