Quotes About Experience

After supper we climbed into his car. He didn't ask what I wanted to see, he just drove me to the corner where the Globe Theatre stood. Nothing is there now, the lot is empty. I made him stop the car and I got out and stood on that empty lot and I thought the top of my head would come off.

I am so tired of being told what a terrible place New York is to live in by people who don't live there

And the more you do, the better you'll get.

The difference between a wise person and a foolish person is that the wise one does not repeat his mistakes,

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Dat is de ellende : je wilt in geen geval nog een keer jonger, stommer zijn, maar je wilt ook niet ouder worden, en ondanks alle ervaring heb je geen vertrouwen in de ouderdom, je wilt jezelf en de wereld om je heen diepvriezen, je bent niet superieur genoeg om gewoon te genieten van wat er is.

Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It't just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

I'm so old that when I order a three-minute egg they make me pay up front.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well.

love is only a kind of festival of solitude

all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

Il suffit que nous bouchions nos oreilles au son de la musique, dans un salon où l'on danse, pour que les danseurs nous paraissent aussitôt ridicules. Combien d'actions humaines résisteraient à une épreuve de ce genre?

usually when we speak of time we think of the measurement of duration, and not of duration itself. But this duration which science eliminates, and which is so difficult to conceive and express, is what one feels and lives.

En nous faisant saisir dans une intuition unique des moments multiples de la durée, elle nous dégage du mouvement d'écoulement des choses, c'est-à-dire du rythme de la nécessité.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

If there is one point, it's humanity, it's life, the richness of life. The thing is simply to be sensitive.

Vos 10 000 premières photographies seront les pires.