Quotes About Experience

My experience with the National Theatre in Kracow often involved many changes of storyline and character. This was particularly useful when working with a director such as Pawel Pawlikowski who is quite intuitive and demands flexibility in an actor.

If it's good for me to go to the national team and play there - not just go there to give experience but to play and be useful - I think it's good.

I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Acting has been very useful to me.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Pilots are useful. You just learn things during a pilot - the piece of casting that just wasn't right or things about the storytelling nature.

A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.

With every coach you work with, you learn something. Then, at the end of your career, when you become a trainer, you take something from every coach that you think is useful for you.

Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.

It has been a useful experience to play for several different teams and move around.

If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don't know if that's useful.

Experience is useful in Test Cricket.

All lessons are useful.