Quotes About Experience

in effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multistate system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.

A great president must be an educator, bridging the gap between his people's future and its experience

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

El hombre vive mas en el tiempo que en el espacio.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

The operating is the easy part, you know,' he said. 'By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making.

Most medical students go through a brief period when they develop all manner of imaginary illnesses – I myself had leukaemia for at least four days – until they learn, as a matter of self-preservation, that illnesses happen to patients, not to doctors.

If patients were thinking rationally they would ask their surgeon how many operations he or she has performed of the sort for which their consent is being sought, but in my experience this scarcely ever happens.

I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade. I am less frightened by failure – I have come to accept it and feel less threatened by it and hopefully have learned from the mistakes I made in the past. I can dare to be a little less detached. Besides, with advancing age I can no longer deny that I am made of the same flesh and blood as my patients and that I am equally vulnerable.

You might think the operation has been a success because the patient leaves the hospital alive but if you saw them years later – as I often do – you would realize that the result of the operation was a human disaster.

the French surgeon René Leriche observed, we all carry cemeteries within ourselves.

I have learnt that handling the brain tells you nothing about life - other than to be dismayed by its fragility.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.