Quotes About Experience

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.