Quotes About Experience

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

I think that my art, my poetry, prose and music come from these cracks in my being, these ley lines where spirit is said to reside. I have come out of the horror of that experience having lost my faith in the inherent goodness of humanity, yet curiously appreciating even more the effort it takes to be good.

He liked to think that he tolerated more strangeness than most people, because he knew from experience that life was generally much stranger than most folks could imagine.

What she had done over the past year had required an equivalent expenditure of energy to a year-long sprint, and when she thought of it that way it was obviously an unreasonable thing to do. Remaining sane--clinging and grasping at it, seeking to please a propriety constructed by people whose boyfriends had never killed themselves--was in fact the most insane thing she could have done, and anyone properly equipped by the right kind of experience would understand that.

She had spent the majority of her days in some sort of a tizzy and had developed over the course of her life a tizzy repertoire of abundant variety, from the black depressive tizzy to the anxious weepy tizzy to the more traditional furious tizzy, which almost always involved projectiles.

You live long enough, every day is the anniversary of some thing.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

The band responded by handing their instruments over to some fans during the encores, and leaving the stage. 'That was the ultimate,' Paul told Q. 'People pay to come in and see us – and end up playing the bloody songs themselves.

Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

the experience of others becomes invaluable. It acts as a shortcut to bypass the long and painful process of trial and error. Indeed, all wise leaders learn from others, both contemporary and historical.

Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive .

Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.