Quotes About Experience

A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

I actually dealt blackjack for a summer.

And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

We all have souls of different ages

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.