Quotes About Experience

When a well-educated young man first enters society he is liable to commit many errors which the world term childish, simply because he has not yet learned how childish grown men really are

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

but majoring in creative writing only ever helped me to write a lot in my diary.

Always explore a new town on an empty stomach. It sharpens the vision. Leave the main thoroughfare immediately. Spend your time dawdling or just sitting.

Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

La gente che non ha opinioni, né un minimo di esperienza tende ad essere curiosa, non odiosa.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Yes, I know, I'm only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?

wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.

But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.

Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.

Theory is important to those of us who are struggling to transform society because it offers distilled experience so we don't have to repeat mistakes. A scientific materialist view of theory and history gives working and oppressed peoples a roadmap to find the path toward liberation.

I could see the sadness in Jan's smile. "You've been through a lot. There's some age you can't count by years. You know how they cut a slice from a tree and count the rings? You got a lot of rings inside that trunk of yours. You know what? I think it's time I stopped calling you kid. You stopped being a kid a long time ago.

I went to the window and looked out over the mounds of snow, wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice and then go back and do it again.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Really?" No one had told me that before. I'd suspected I'd always been a little cynical. "What happened to me?" I pondered. Edna laughed. "Oh, you'll be happy again. You've had a rough couple of years is all. You're just coming into your own. It takes a while. I remember being your age.

Leslie Hulet Stahl

Memory is tricky-memory for certain facts and or details is probably more imaginative than anything, but the important thing is to keep the feeling the story has. I never forget that: the feeling one has of the story is what you must strive to bring forth faithfully.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.